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Queer Ink: A Blotted History Towards Liberation - Katherine Hubbard - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front during the First World War - Brynley Hammond - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd -

The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front during the First World War - Brynley Hammond - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd -

The image of a tank crawling across a shell-cratered battlefield remains one of the iconic representations of the Great War. Yet, despite the huge amount of attention tanks received - both at the time and from later historians - fierce debate continues to rage regarding their actual impact on the war. Neither contemporaries nor historians agree on whether the British army every really understood the potential of this new weapon and how best to integrate it into the wider army. Focusing on operations planned and executed during the war, this study challenges perceptions of senior commanders of the British Expeditionary Force as unimaginative and unresponsive to technological innovation. Instead, it demonstrates how they employed a continuous cycle of operational analysis and evaluation to create, revise and refine theories of tank co-operation with other arms. Indeed, field commanders were often enthusiastic supporters of the tank, and several attempted innovative offensive operations using them. However, without prior knowledge of the combat performance of such new technology, it was inevitable that much trial and error would be involved in finding the strengths and weaknesses of these vehicles. Whilst accepting that more could perhaps have been done before 1918 to facilitate the tank''s integration into the British forces, Dr Hammond clearly demonstrates that the extreme conditions under which tank crews worked and the technological limitations of the early tanks posed severe constraints on the development of a workable ''tank doctrine''. Nevertheless, by the end of the war, tanks were established as a permanent and essential element of the British Army.

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Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management UST Closure and Financial Assurance - Paul S. Thompson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War - Dr. Tim Gale - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War - Dr. Tim Gale - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Recent scholarship has challenged the assumption that military commanders during the First World War were inflexible, backward-looking and unwilling to exploit new technologies. Instead a very different picture is now emerging of armies desperately looking to a wide range of often untested and immature scientific and technological innovations to help break the deadlock of the Western Front. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the development of tank warfare, which both the British and the French hoped would give them a decisive edge in their offensives of 1917 and 1918. Whilst the British efforts to develop armoured warfare have been well chronicled, there has been no academic study in English on the French tank force - the Artillerie Spéciale - during the Great War. As such, this book provides a welcome new perspective on an important but much misunderstood area of the war. Such was the scale of the French tanks’ failure in their first engagement in 1917, it was rumoured that the Artillerie Spéciale was in danger of being disbanded, yet, by the end of the war it was the world’s largest and most technologically advanced tank force. This work examines this important facet of the French army’s performance in the First World War, arguing that the AS fought the war in as intelligent and sensible a manner as was possible, given the immature state of the technology available. No amount of sound tank doctrine could compensate for the fragility of the material, for the paucity of battlefield communication equipment and for the lack of tank-infantry training opportunities. Only by 1918 was the French army equipped with enough reliable tanks, as well as aircraft and heavy-artillery, to begin to exercise a mastery of the new form of combined-arms warfare. The successful French armoured effort outlined in this study (including a listing of all the combat engagements of the French tank service in the Great War) highlights a level of military effectiveness within

DKK 579.00
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Compressed Hydrogen in Fuel Cell Vehicles - Rupesh Rohan - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Compressed Hydrogen in Fuel Cell Vehicles - Rupesh Rohan - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sloshing in Upright Circular Containers - Alexander Timokha - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

MAHAD: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt - Anand Teltumbde - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Principles of Cyberbullying Research - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Leaders in War - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Victorian Vocalists - Kurt Ganzl - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How the War Was Won - T.h.e. Travers - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Epimethean Imaginings - Raymond (university Of Manchester Tallis - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Epimethean Imaginings - Raymond (university Of Manchester Tallis - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who "traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical "hardy perennials" like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are. The first part of the book – Analysis – dives into the deep-end to explore some of the big questions in philosophy: perception, knowledge and belief; time; the relationship between mathematics and reality; and probability and causation. The middle section – Tetchy Interludes – takes a wry look at some aspects of contemporary art; stupidity (including the author’s own); and Christmas. The third part – Celebration – is more experimental in both its subject matter and treatment. It celebrates the complexity of ordinary, everyday consciousness by contemplating the miracle of speech, artefacts that have transformed our lives (and what they reveal about our cognition) such as the wheel, the sail, and ink; and ‘snapshots’ of the author’s own consciousness on an ordinary day, of past consciousness, as captured in historical memory. Notwithstanding their diversity in theme and style, these essays share the common aim of discovering and celebrating the submerged riches in the "quick deeds" of our everyday lives and perceptions.

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The Politics of Think Tanks in Europe - Jesper Dahl (roskilde University Kelstrup - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk