Fields of Battle

by Doyle, Peter; Bennett, Matthew R.

• ISBN13: 9781402004339
• ISBN10: 1402004338
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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. Audience: Intended as a text for the military historian, historical and physical geographer, practitioner of GIS or archaeologist, this volume also provides important case histories for advanced undergraduates, researchers and enthusiasts wishing to know more about the conduct of battle.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Terrain in Military History: An Introduction	1	(8)
Peter Doyle
Matthew R. Bennett
Markings on the Land' and Early Medieval Warfare in the British Isles	9	(10)
Kerry Cathers
Geology and Warfare in England and Wales 1450-1660	19	(14)
Trevor Halsall
Battles on Chalk: the Geology of Battle in Southern England during the First Civil War 1643-1644	33	(18)
Trevor Halsall
Terrain and Guerrilla Warfare in Navarre, 1808-1814	51	(12)
Shell Kimble
Patrick O'Sullivan
Effective use of Terrain in the American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862	63	(36)
Judy Ehlen
R. Abrahart
Tullahoma: Terrain and Tactics in the American Civil War	99	(18)
Walter Earl Pittman
The Mountain is their Monument: An Archaeological Approach to the Landscape of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879	117	(20)
Tony Pollard
Maps and Decisions: Buller South and North of the Tugela, 1899-1900	137	(6)
Martin Marix Evans
The Thirty-Years War, 1914-1945: Mapping the Battlefields of the Past for the Construction of the European Future	143	(6)
Edmon Castell
Sonia Roura
Terrain and the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915	149	(22)
Peter Doyle
Matthew R. Bennett
British, French, German Mapping and Survey on the Western Front in the First World War	171	(34)
Peter Chasseaud
Terrain and the Messines Ridge, Belgium, 1914-1918	205	(20)
Peter Doyle
Matthew R. Bennett
Roy Macleod
Louise Mackay
Zero Hour: Historical Note on the British Underground War in Flanders, 1915-1917	225	(12)
Franky Bostyn
Mud Blood, and Wood: BEF Operational and Combat Logistico-Engineering during the Battle of Third Ypres, 1917	237	(20)
Rob Thompson
Across the River: Interpreting the Battle of Ebro or Battlefields as a Didactic Resource	257	(8)
Edmon Castell
Lluis Falco
Fortification of Island Terrain: Second World War German Military Engineering on the Channel Island of Jersey, a Classic Area of British Geology	265	(46)
Edward P.F. Rose
W. Michael Ginns
John T. Renouf
Piracy on the High Desert: the Long-Range Desert Group 1940-1943	311	(14)
James Underwood, Jr.
Robert F. Giegengack
The Geology of the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944	325	(20)
John A. Ciciarelli
Terrain as a Factor in the Battle of Normandy, 1944	345	(20)
Stephen Badsey
Airfield Country: Terrain, Land-Use and the Air Defence of Britain, 1939-1945	365	(20)
Ron N.E. Blake
Subject Index	385