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Hell in the Trenches Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi in the Great War

Name: Hell in the Trenches
Author: Paolo Morisi

Auteur: Paolo Morisi

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Paolo Morisi

Engels
Paperback
9781912174980
15 augustus 2018
344 pagina's

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The Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and the Italian Arditi of World War I were elite special forces charged with carrying out bold raids and daring attacks. These units were comprised of hand-picked soldiers that possessed above-average courage, physical prowess as well as specific combat skills. Many military historians have argued that the First World War was mainly a static conflict of positional attrition, but these shock troops were responsible for developing breakthrough tactics of both fire and movement that marked a significant change to the status quo. Both armies used special assault detachments to capture prisoners, conduct raids behind enemy lines and attack in depth in order to prepare the way for a broad infantry breakthrough. This account traces the development of Austrian and Italian assault troop tactics in the context of trench warfare waged in the mountainous front of the Alps and the rocky hills of the Carso plateau. It not only examines their innovative tactics but also their adoption of vastly improved new weapons such as light machine-guns, super-heavy artillery, flamethrowers, hand grenades, daggers, steel clubs and poison gas. This book offers a narrative of the organizational development of the shock and assault troops, of their military operations and their combat methods. The bulk of the chapters are devoted to a historical reconstruction of the assault detachments' combat missions between 1917-18 by utilizing previously unreleased archival sources such as Italian and Austrian war diaries, official manuals, divisional and High Command reports and the soldiers' own recollections of the war. Finally, it offers a comprehensive description of their uniforms, equipment, and weapons, along with a large number of illustrations, maps and period photographs rarely seen. This epic trial of military strength of these special stormtroops cannot be properly understood without visiting, and walking, the battlefields. The appendix thus offers the reader a series of walks to visits key high mountain fortifications in the Italian Dolomites, many of which have attained almost legendary status.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 augustus 2018
Aantal pagina's: 344
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Paolo Morisi
Hoofduitgeverij: Helion & Company

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 170 mm
Product lengte: 245 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 155 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 483 g

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EAN: 9781912174980

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Periode: 20e eeuw
Taal: Engels
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Land: Italie, Oostenrijk

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