Messenger, Charles, - TRENCH FIGHTING 1914-18.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps/diagrams, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in 'The Pan / Ballantine Illustrated History of the First World War' series, Book No. 2, an account of trench fighting on the Western Front during WW1, from the early failures of the offensive mobile strategies which led to the taking up of defensive positions, the extensions of those defences to guard the flanks which became the Western Front trenches stretching 450 miles from the North Sea to Switzerland, relating life in the trenches, the development of weapons and tactics for static warfare, the attempts to break out with more detailed accounts of Verdun and the Somme, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, slight slant and sunning to spine, very good plus,

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