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106: July 2016 Special Edition
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Storm Troop Tactics - Innovation in the German Army by Bruce I Gudundsson
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1914-1918, 210 pp. Casebound, £30.95 in UK (through Eurospan books). Praeger, New York. 1989. ISBN 0275 93328 8. It is perhaps rare to find Great War tactics being held up as a model for today's soldiers—but this is the approach taken by Bruce Gudmundsson in his fascinating interpretation of Ludendorff's Germans for the benefit of Schwarzkopf's Am…
ONLINE : 'Battlefield Success: Achieving Tactical Excellence in an Infantry Battalion 1916-18' with Fraser Skirrow
The presentation will be live and online. This talk, by Fraser Skirrow, looks at the development of training, tactics, weapons and organisation. Told through the experiences of a West Yorkshire battalion, it focuses on how new weapons and techniques were applied by the infantry on the battlefield. The story illustrates the growth of all arms…
ONLINE: Boer War to World War: Tactics and Training in the British Army 1902 - 1914
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The presentation will be live and online. We are delighted to welcome back Dr Spencer Jones for another webinar, when he will look at the tactics of the British Army between the end of the Boer War and the start of the Great War. Rudyard Kipling reflected in his poem 'The Lesson' how the hard-fought Boer War (1899-1902) had provided 'no end of a …
Guillemont, 3 September 1916 Tactics and Insights
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‘Not a Single Blade of Grass...’ by Sebastian Laudan [This article first appeared in Stand To! No.106 July 2016 Special Edition]. In 1926 Oberstleutnant aD (Lieutenant Colonel, retired) Wilhelm Nau published the last volume of a series of books covering the participation of the infantry regiment he had been serving with in Belgium and France thro…
ONLINE: ‘Big Hands, Little Maps’: Operational Art and its genesis on the Western Front
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The presentation will be live and online. Prior to 1914 there were generally considered to be only two levels of war: Strategy and Tactics. The former tended to be the role of a 'supreme leader' and his council or of a national government whilst the latter was executed by commanders of armies in the field. Lieutenant Colonel Simon Shephard will…
‘The Learning Process in Practice: Some Case Studies of Tactics and Training, 1916-1918' Peter Simkins
Our October branch meeting takes place on Sunday, 2nd October. We are very pleased to welcome the President of The Western Front Association, Peter Simkins. Peter is one of the leading Great War historians and is very well known for his detailed examination of Kitchener's Armies and many, many other aspects of 1914-18 in print, on-line and at conf…
Sir John Monash and the Battle of Le Hamel 1918 - A presentation by Paul Cobb
Paul will be discussing the Battle of Le Hamel and the pivitol role Sir John Monash played in organising all the different arms to fight together leading to victory. This involved Australian troops, British tanks and several companies of the American Expeditionary Force to name but a few. A most interested and informative afternoon's presentation. …
London Pride Conference: The London Territorial Force in Peace and War, 1908-1921
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Doors Open at 9.30 (conference starts at 10.00) to 16.30. The London Pride Conference in 2024 aims to offer a comprehensive exploration of the history and influence of the London Territorials during the years 1908 to 1921. The conference provides an opportunity for the authors of an edited volume of the same name, due to be published by Helion &am…
Tanks and Storm Troopers : British and German Solutions to the Deadlock on the Western Front by A D Harvey
(This article first appeared in the June 2020 edition of Stand To! Number 118 pp.10-14.) By 1916 both sides were seeking a solution to the stalemate which had developed on the Western Front as a result of the almost insuperable advantage enjoyed by garrisons in carefully constructed defences over enemy troops attacking across prepared fire zones. …