For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made th

Military expert Paddy Griffith argues that despite the use of new weapons and of trench warfare techniques, the Civil War was in reality the last Napoleonic-sty

From the German stormtroopers of 1918 to the jungles of Vietnam, the role of the infantry soldier has developed and evolved. This book describes the changes in

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