Fields of battle
Subtitle: terrain in military history
By: edited by Peter Doyle and Matthew R. Bennett.
Contributors: Doyle, Peter, 1960-; Bennett, Matthew
Series: The GeoJournal library ;; v. 64
Publisher: Kluwer Academic; Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Military geography -- Congresses; Battlefields -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This is the first book of its kind to attempt a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding how terrain has affected the outcome of warfare in history. Taking a broad sweep from mediaeval times, the English Civil Wars of the 17th century and the Napoleonic Wars of the 18th century, its primary focus is on the major battles and engagements of the century of warfare from 1850 to 1950. Examining the American Civil War, the Anglo-Zulu War, the Boer War, the Great War of 1914-1918, the Spanish Civil War and finally the Second World War, it takes a total terrain view. All aspects of terrain, including the cultural and spiritual significance of battle, the physical geography and geology of the battlefield and the growing discipline of battlefield archaeology are covered.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The current volume stems from the international Terrain in Military History conference held ... at the University of Greenwich in January 2000"-Pref.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Terrain in Military History: An Introduction; title: Peter Doyle & Matthew R. Bennett; title: 'Markings on the Land' and Early Medieval Warfare in the British Isles; title: Kerry Cathers; title: Geology and Warfare in England and Wales 1450-1660; title: Trevor Halsall; title: Battles on Chalk: the Geology of Battle in Southern England during the First Civil War 1643-1644; title: Trevor Halsall; title: Terrain and Guerrilla Warfare in Navarre, 1808-1814; title: Shell Kimble & Patrick O'Sullivan; title: Effective use of Terrain in the American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862; title: Judy Ehlen & R. Abrahart; title: Tullahoma: Terrain and Tactics in the American Civil War; title: Walter Earl Pittman; title: The Mountain is their Monument: An Archaeological Approach to the Landscape of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879; title: Tony Pollard; title: Maps and Decisions: Buller South and North of the Tugela, 1899-1900; title: Martin Marix Evans; title: The Thirty-Years War, 1914-1945: Mapping the Battlefields of the Past for the Construction of the European Future; title: Edmon Castell & Sonia Roura; title: Terrain and the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915; title: Peter Doyle & Matthew R. Bennett; title: British, French, German Mapping and Survey on the Western Front in the First World War; title: Peter Chasseaud; title: Terrain and the Messines Ridge, Belgium, 1914-1918; title: Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett, Roy Macleod &; title: Louise Mackay; title: Zero Hour: Historical Note on the British Underground War in Flanders, 1915-1917; title: Franky Bostyn; title: Mud Blood, and Wood: BEF Operational and Combat; title: Logistico-Engineering during the Battle of Third Ypres, 1917; title: Rob Thompson; title: Across the River: Interpreting the Battle of Ebro or Battlefields as a Didactic Resource; title: Edmon Castell & Lluis Falc6; title: Fortification of Island Terrain: Second World War German Military Engineering on the Channel Island of Jersey, a; title: Classic Area of British Geology; title: Edward P.F. Rose, W. Michael Ginns & John T. Renouf; title: Piracy on the High Desert: the Long-Range Desert Group 1940-1943; title: James Underwood, Jr. & Robert F. Giegengack; title: The Geology of the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944; title: John A. Ciciarelli; title: Terrain as a Factor in the Battle of Normandy, 1944; title: Stephen Badsey; title: Airfield Country: Terrain, Land-Use and the Air Defence of Britain, 1939-1945; title: Ron N.E. Blake.