"Books on development of warfare doctrine,interwar period???" Topic
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| thedrake | 19 Aug 2019 12:48 p.m. PST |
Am looking for books on development of tank+infantry warfare doctrine between WW1 and WW2, similar to "Achtung,Panzer!" by Guderian or "Forgotten Tanks of the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's" by David Lister. Spurred by my reading of WW1 weapons and tactics evolution (Stosstrupptaktik, flamethrower use, etc.) am wanting to read more about how countries developed weapons+tactical doctrines in the interwar period. Any help appreciated. Mark |
robert piepenbrink  | 19 Aug 2019 4:41 p.m. PST |
Well, you certainly want deGaulle's Towards a Professional Army, outlining the path France did not choose. For Italy, there's John Joseph Timothy Sweet's Iron Arm: the Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-40. (Full disclosure: Tim Sweet was just ahead of me at Kansas State's graduate program in military history. In fact we overlapped by about a year. I don't remember him, but we shared friends and professors.) |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 19 Aug 2019 5:53 p.m. PST |
The writings of B.H. Liddell Hart and J.F.C. Fuller. |
| robert piepenbrink | 20 Aug 2019 3:58 a.m. PST |
Might take a look at Robin Higham, The Military Intellectuals in Britain. (Again, personal connection, long, long ago.) |
| Eleve de Vauban | 20 Aug 2019 9:13 a.m. PST |
I am half-way through Robert Doughty's "The Seeds of Disaster" – "The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-39". So far, this is very interesting. |
| Viper guy | 21 Aug 2019 4:10 a.m. PST |
Billy Mitchell "Winged Defense" |
| Walking Sailor | 22 Aug 2019 10:43 p.m. PST |
Infanterie Grieft An (trans. Infantry Attacks) by Irwin Rommel (yes that Irwin Rommel) written as a text book when he was headmaster of the Infanterie school.
The American equivalent is Infantry In Battle by George C. Marshall.
The notes for Rommel's uncompleted Panzer Grieft An are included in The Rommel Papers ed. B. H. Liddell Hart & Fritz Bayerlein et al.
Besides Achtung, Panzer! (1937) by Guderian, there is his other book Panzer Leader written post war.
The 1935 warfighting manual of the German Army: The German Army Regulation 300, Truppenführung is republished in translation by Stackpole Books as On The German Art Of War.
On the other side, the Nafzinger Collection published Soviet Infantry Tactics in World War II : Red Army Infantry, Tactics from Squad to Rifle Company from the Combat Regulations (of November 1942) and Soviet Armor Tactics in World War II: Red Army Armor Tactics from Individual Vehicle to Company from the Combat Regulations of 1944. I do not know of earlier Soviet works in translation. |
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