Description
Product ID: | 9781849087124 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Elite |
Title: | World War II Winter and Mountain Warfare Tactics |
Authors: | Author: Dr Stephen Bull, Mr Steve Noon |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | History, History, Warfare and defence, Warfare & defence |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Contains memoirs and unit histories. This book is illustrates with period tactical diagrams and commissioned colour artwork. It sheds light on the winter-warfare tactics and techniques of the US, British, German, Soviet and Finnish armies of World War II. Although prolonged warfare in subzero temperatures and/or at high altitude had occurred from time to time before 1900, the twentieth century saw an unprecedented emphasis on fighting in all terrains, seasons and weather conditions. Such conditions made even basic survival difficult as subzero temperatures caused weapons to jam, engines to seize up and soldiers to suffer frostbite, snow blindness and hypothermia; even the hardiest, best-equipped troops found defending their positions very difficult, let alone conducting offensive operations. The conditions often favoured small groups of mobile, lightly armed soldiers, rather than the armoured forces or air power that dominated other combat environments. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-04-20 |