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[Detail from the cover of a juvenile adventure story taking place in the trenches, 1918; source below.]
I'm accumulating some titles for trench warfare in WWI that are all available online. I was a little surprised to find as many as I did. Here it goes:
There are a number of useful diagrams, including the following (which reminds me in a vague way of Feynman diagrams):
Source for the two above images: Use of mines in trench warfare (from the French school of St. Cyr) Translated and edited at the Army war college. July, 1917. by United States. Army War College, Washington, D.C. Published 1917
- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031996757;view=thumb;seq=1
Selections of WWI Trench-related Manuals--Full text:
Trench warfare, by Major Jas. A. Moss, U.S. Army; being a practical manual for the training and instruction of officers and men in trench warfare, based on the latest... by Moss, James A. 1872-1941. Published 1917 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101042554194;view=thumb;seq=1
Trench warfare; a manual for officers and men, by J. S. Smith. by Smith, Joseph Shuter, 1893 Published 1917 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4gm84f5c;view=thumb;seq=71
British artillery experience : shooting & observation in trench warfare. by Dixhuit. Thayer, L. O. Published 1918 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.47695223;view=thumb;seq=1
Notes from the front. Collated by the General staff. Published: London, Printed for H. M. Stationary office, by Harrison and sons, 1914. Subjects: Great Britain. > Army > Officers' handbooks. World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western front. Physical Description: 47, [1] p. illus., fold. diagrs. 17 cm. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000443434
Notes on cover against shell fire, with special reference to 5.9-inch shells. Issued by the British General staff, July, 1916. Revised December, 1916. Edited: Army war college, May, 1917 Washington, 1917. Note: On verso of t.-p.: War department. Document no. 591. Office of the adjutant general. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002028911
Index to the German Forces in the field / compiled by the General Staff, War Office [s.l. : s.n., 1917 Note: October, 1917. Physical Description: 241 p. ; 22 cm. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008231051
Elements of trench warfare, by Captain William H. Waldron ... by Waldron, William H. 1877-1947.Published 1917 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t9086xs0s;view=thumb;seq=6
The boy allies in the trenches, or, Midst shot and shell along the Aisne / by Clair W. Hayes. by Hayes, Clair W. 1887- Published 1915 (Juvenile fiction.) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076002790082;view=thumb;seq=36
The attack in trench warfare, by Laffargue, André Charles Victor. Published 1917. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035951493;view=thumb;seq=1
A glossary of trench warfare ordnance, by United States Army Ordnance Dept. Published 1918 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061729529;view=thumb;seq=6''
Vocabulary of German military terms and abbreviations. Published: [London?] 1917. Military art and science > Dictionaries > German. 160 p. 20 cm. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001036644
Use of mines in trench warfare (from the French school of St. Cyr) Translated and edited at the Army war college. July, 1917. by United States. Army war college, Washington, D.C. Published 1917
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031996757;view=thumb;seq=1
Scouting and patrolling / issued by the General Staff. [London] : War Office, 1917. Scouts and scouting. Military reconnaissance. Scouting (Reconnaissance) "December, 1917. 56 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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