- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2016
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x125mm
- Condition: Very Good
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781445638225
- Product code: 528460
The Tommies' Manual 1916
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This selection from the many leaflets and manuals issued to troops by the War Office during the First World War includes directions on the siting and construction of trenches, instructions on the use and maintenance of machine guns, an aircraft identification guide, precautions against gas attacks, and notes on the deployment of artillery. Reproduced in facsimile, they include more than 70 original illustrations, diagrams and plans. Slightly off-mint.
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How do you aim a Lewis gun?
What can you do to protect your war horse from a gas attack?
How do you design a barbed wire entanglement for a front line trench?
What does an 18-pounder artillery piece do best?
An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the War Office during the First World War to aid British soldiers on the Western Front. The Tommies' Manual 1916 combines the best of them into a poignant facsimile. Most were supremely practical or highly technical; some became obsolete almost immediately, overtaken by technological advances; others hid the grim reality of war behind a prosaic title. All make fascinating reading and are reproduced here with an introduction and over seventy period illustrations.
What can you do to protect your war horse from a gas attack?
How do you design a barbed wire entanglement for a front line trench?
What does an 18-pounder artillery piece do best?
An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the War Office during the First World War to aid British soldiers on the Western Front. The Tommies' Manual 1916 combines the best of them into a poignant facsimile. Most were supremely practical or highly technical; some became obsolete almost immediately, overtaken by technological advances; others hid the grim reality of war behind a prosaic title. All make fascinating reading and are reproduced here with an introduction and over seventy period illustrations.
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This selection from the many leaflets and manuals issued to troops by the War Office during the First World War includes directions on the siting and construction of trenches, instructions on the use and maintenance of machine guns, an aircraft identification guide, precautions against gas attacks, and notes on the deployment of artillery. Reproduced in facsimile, they include more than 70 original illustrations, diagrams and plans. <i>Slightly off-mint.</i>
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