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Marc Romanych

Railway Guns of World War I

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World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery pieces and the very idea was comparatively new, more railway guns were used during this war than in any other conflict. Designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the first railway guns were simple, improvised designs made by mounting surplus coastal defence, fortress, and naval guns onto existing commercial railway carriages. As the war dragged on, railway artillery development shifted to longer range guns that could shell targets deep behind enemy lines. This change of role brought much large… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Heuer, Greg / Noon, Steve (Illustr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4728-1641-2
  • EAN: 9781472816412
  • Produktnummer: 23725849
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 48 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 18'022 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 30 b/w; 33 col

Über den Autor


Marc Romanych is a retired US Army combat arms officer. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Maryland and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from St. Mary's University. He has co-authored several books on World War I and II artillery and fortifications for Osprey Publishing.

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