The Guns of Victory 1914–1918 - Volume 1, Field Artillery: Light Pieces and Heavy Pieces
The Guns of Victory 1914–1918 - Volume 1, Field...

The Guns of Victory 1914–1918 - Volume 1, Field Artillery: Light Pieces and Heavy Pieces

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The French army entered the field in August 1914 with an extraordinary field gun, the 75, which was supposed to do almost everything. At that point, French ranks possessed only a very limited complement of heavy field artillery: barely three hundred guns of 120 and 155 calibre, of which only around one hundred could be considered modern. On the other hand, thousands of older pieces from the de Bange system (equipment adopted between 1877 and 1885), of limited mobility, were held in reserve for fortified positions.

The rapid wear on field pieces, the enormous consumption of ammunition and the demands of trench warfare would give all this materiel — outdated but with excellent ballistic qualities — the opportunity to serve, from late 1914 onwards, in proportions no one had anticipated, while awaiting the arrival of the modern heavy pieces, which would not arrive at the front in significant numbers until 1917. This compact, well-structured volume reviews some 36 different models, old and new, from the tiny 65 mm mountain gun to the enormous 280 mm Schneider mortar, employed on the front in 1914–1918 in the role of light or heavy field artillery.

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  • FIELD ARTILLERY IN 1914: AN ALMOST OMNIPRESENT 75..
    • Mountain and field pieces
    • Short heavy pieces
  • THE "DE BANGE BARRIER": OLDER EQUIPMENT USED IN THE FIELD
    • Mountain and supplementary field pieces
    • Long heavy pieces
    • Short heavy pieces
  • FROM EXPANSION TO PEAK: NEWLY CONSTRUCTED EQUIPMENT
    • Supplementary field pieces
    • Long heavy pieces
    • Short heavy pieces
  • TOWARD "THE 1919 OFFENSIVE": NEW LONG-BARREL AND SELF-PROPELLED GUNS
Author 1
Pierre Touzin
Author 2
François Vauvillier
Publication date
2006
Cover
Paperback
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS

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