Warfare in woods and forests
Fighting in woods and forests is a special form of war and is avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage. For soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be abandoned, and prisoners who cannot be guarded are killed. Too often, armies have been badly prepared and trained for such warfare and have suffered severely. In Warfare in Woods an…
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- Full title :Warfare in woods and forests / Anthony Clayton ; foreword by Charles Guthrie.
Summary
Fighting in woods and forests is a special form of war and is avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage. For soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be abandoned, and prisoners who cannot be guarded are killed. Too often, armies have been badly prepared and trained for such warfare and have suffered severely. In Warfare in Woods and Forests, military historian Anthony Clayton describes major events in woods and forest warfare from the first century CE to the 21st. These events involve Roman soldiers in Germany 2,000 years ago ; North Americans in 18th- and 19th-century conflicts; invaders of Russia in 1812 and 1941 ; British, French, and Americans in France in 1916 and 1918 ; Americans in the Hürtgen Forest in 1944 ; and Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 145 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780253356888, 0253356881
- oclc:ocn696100061
- LC Classification:U167.5.F6
- Dewey Decimal:355.4
Table of Contents
Warfare before firearms -- Early modern warfare, 1500-1713 -- The eighteenth century: new irregular challenges -- Toward later modern warfare, 1815-1914 -- The First World War, 1914-17 -- The First World War, 1918 -- The Second World War, 1939-45 -- Post-1945 and conclusion.
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