The Mammoth Book of Battles: The Art and Science of Modern Warfare

573 Pages·1999·2.86 MB·English

by  Jon E. Lewis (ed.)

The Mammoth Book of
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Edited by
Jon E. Lewis
Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
NEW YORK
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First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing 1995
First Carroll & Graf edition 1995
This edition 1999
Reprinted 2000
This collected edition copyright © Robinson Publishing 1999
Material from War Monthly copyright © Marshall Cavendish
Partworks Ltd 1995
Maps by Andras Bereznay
Front cover picture:
Indochina wars/Vietnam War 1964-75, AKG London/AP.
Back cover picture: “The German offensive in the West. Cavalry
advancing”, World War I/Western Front, AKG London.
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ISBN 0-7867-0689-9
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Contents
List of Maps vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
1 THE BOER WAR 1
The Relief of Ladysmith (1900) Howard Green 3
2 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 19
Tsushima (1905) C. P. Campbell 21
3 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 31
Nun’s Wood (1914) Peter Banyard 33
Gallipoli (1915) Nigel Bagnall 43
Suez (1915) Anthony Burton 57
Verdun (1916) Brenda Ralph Lewis 65
The Somme (1916) Ernest Shephard 77
Vimy Ridge (1917) Brenda Ralph Lewis 87
Passchendaele (1917) Hubert Essame 98
Cambrai (1917) Bryan Cooper 109
4 ASIAN INCIDENTS 119
Shanghai (1937) Michael Calvert 121
Khalkhin-Gol (1939) Alan Lothian 132
5 THE SECOND WORLD WAR 143
River Plate (1939) David Thomas 145
Battle of Britain (1940) Christopher Dowling 156
Keren (1941) John Strawson 171
Kiev (1941) John Strawson 183
Leningrad (1941) Alan Clark 195
Pearl Harbor (1941) Paul Hutchinson 206
Singapore (1942) C. C. M. Macleod-Carey 214
Santa Cruz (1942) Michael Orr 221
Kokoda Trail (1942) John Laffin 233
Stalingrad (1942) Peter Young 243
El Alamein (1942) J. F. C. Fuller 254
Bou Arada (1943) Donald Gurrey 270
Kursk (1943) Alan Wykes 280
Sicily (1943) Hubert Essame 294
Admin Box (1944) Patrick Turnbull 307
Anzio (1944) John Keegan 318
Monte Cassino (1944) E. D. Smith 331
Omaha Beach (1944) Nigel Bagnall 341
Aachen (1944) Hubert Essame 359
Ardennes (1944) Peter Young 370
Berlin (1945) John Strawson 376
I wo Jima (1945) Paul M. Kennedy 388
6 THE KOREAN WAR 401
Inchon (1950) Sydney L. Mayer 403
Imjin River (1951) A. H. Farrar-Hockley and E. L. Capel 411
7 VIETNAM 431
Dien Bien Phu (1953) Charles Mey 433
la Drang (1965) Ian Westwell 444
Hamburger Hill (1969) John Pimlott 451
8 THE SIX-DAY WAR 457
Jerusalem (1967) Ashley Brown 459
9 THE FALKLAND S WAR 467
Wireless Ridge (1982) John Frost 469
10 THE PERSIAN GULF WAR 487
Desert Storm Jon E. Lewis 489
List of Maps
facing
1.1 The Relief of Ladysmith 4
2.1 The Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905 22
3.1 The Western Front 1914–18 32
3.2 The Ypres Salient, 1914–15 36
3.3 Gallipoli 44
3.4 Verdun, 1916 66
3.5 The Battle of the Somme, July–November 1916 78
3.6 Vimy Ridge and the Battles of Arras,
April–May 1917 88
3.7 Passchendaele, July–November 1917 98
3.8 The Battle of Cambrai, November 1917 110
5.1 The Battle of the River Plate,
13 December 1939 146
5.2 The Battle of Britain, July–September 1940 156
5.3 The Siege of Leningrad,
October 1941–January 1944 196
5.4 The Fall of Singapore, February 1942 214
5.5 The Battle for Stalingrad,
September 1942–February 1943 244
5.6 The Battle of El Alamein, 23 October 1942 254
5.7 The Battle for the Kursk Salient,
July–August 1943 280
5.8 The Invasion and Conquest of Sicily,
July–August 1943 294
5.9 The Battle for Anzio, May 1944 318
5.10 The Battle for Cassino, January–May 1944 332
5.11 The Invasion of Normandy – Omaha Beach,
6 June 1944 342
5.12 The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 370
5.13 The Fall of Berlin, April–May 1945 376
5.14 The Campaigns in the Pacific, 1943–5 388
6.1 The Inchon Landings, September 1950 404
6.2 The Battle of Imjin River, April 1951 412
7.1 The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, March–May 1954 434
8.1 The Capture of Jerusalem, 5–7 June 1967 460
9.1 The Capture of Wireless Ridge and
Port Stanley, June 1982 470
10.1 The Liberation of Kuwait, February 1991 490
Acknowledgements
The editor has made every effort to locate all persons having any
rights in the selections appearing in this anthology and to secure
permission from the holders of such rights. Any queries regarding the
use of material should be addressed to the editor c/o the publishers.
Parts of this work previously appeared in the partwork War Monthly,
unless otherwise stated all material is copyright © Marshall Caven­
dish Partworks Ltd.
The Relief of Ladysmith’ is an extract from Great Military Battles
by Howard Green. Copyright © 1971 Leo Cooper Ltd. Reprinted
by permission of the publishers.
‘Tsushima’ is an extract from Great Battles of the 20th Century,
edited by Barrie Pitt. Copyright © 1977 Phoebus Publishing and
BPC Publishing Ltd.
‘The Somme’ is an extract from A Sergeant-Major's War by Ernest
Shephard. Copyright © The Crowood Press. Reprinted by permis­
sion of the publishers.
‘Battle of Britain 1940’ by Christopher Dowling was first published in
Decisive Battles of the Twentieth Century, edited by Noble Frankland
and Christopher Dowling, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976. Copyright ©
1976 Dr Christopher Dowling. Reprinted by kind permission of the
author.