Buy this book on-line Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham : Fire-Power. British Army Weapons and Theories of War 1904-1945(London, George Allen & Unwin, 1982)
8vo; original red boards; no dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 327, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates; diagrams in text. Spine very slightly stippled; previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front pastedown; light foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. "The generals of that [the First World] war were men whose military outlook had been formed in the nineteenth century and they were faced with the weapon technology of the twentieth. Modern agriculture provided a surplus of food to put in the mouths of unproductive soldiers, modern medicine preserved the unhygienic masses of soldiery from decimation by epidemic disease, and modern transportation enabled millions of men to be concentrated in the theatre of war. Then modern science and engineering enabled factories to turn out modern weapons to kill them in equally large numbers." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham : Fire-Power. British Army Weapons and Theories of War 1904-1945. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres anciens, livres rares, libri antichi and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |