1918, ISBN: 1843425157

[EAN: 9781843425151], CD ROMPublished Price £85Price + v.a.t. (£7.99) (v.a.t. is applicable to all U.K. & European THIS ITEM IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS VISTA or WINDOWS 7 or 8192 larg… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781843425151], CD ROMPublished Price £85Price + v.a.t. (£7.99) (v.a.t. is applicable to all U.K. & European THIS ITEM IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS VISTA or WINDOWS 7 or 8192 large scale mapsDetailed viewing notes accompany each mapPin-sharp imagesSophisticated cartographic software Ð yet simple and easy to operateWWI as seen from the other side of the wireSearch - zoom - printExplore history using an unique archiveGreat reference resource for the battlefield touristSuitable for both the serious historian and the interested amateur21st century technology bringing real benefitsExpand your knowledge of the First World WarThe 4th cartography CD-ROM from N&MPThe 192 large-scale maps in this CD-ROM represent a public collection, unique in the UK, of German trench and operations maps in the Public Record Office, London, which holds the largest and most important collection of First World War maps in the UK; they are nearly all contained in PRO Class WO 153. These maps were captured by British and Allied forces in the First World War, and were subject to analysis and interpretation by HaigÕs General Staff Intelligence Department at GHQ in France; some have attached the original British intelligence notes. They provide an excellent sample of the various types of trench and operations maps used by German forces on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. German forces on the Eastern and other fronts used very similar maps, but these are not represented here. German trench maps are very rare in this country, and even in Germany are hard to find. The biggest collection in Germany is at the Bundesarchiv-MilitŠrarchive at Freiburg, but there are also significant collections at the Hauptstaatsarchiv-Kriegsarchiv in Munich and the MilitŠrgeschichtliche-Forschungsamt in Potsdam.The maps give a vivid picture of the complexity of the German and Allied trench systems and defences, and of the nature of modern warfare in attack and defence Ð trench (positions) maps, artillery maps, enemy battery and targets maps, rear organisation maps (railways, roads, hospitals, communications) Ð representing the industrialisation of the war effort in a massive manifestation of staff work and organisation. At the very lowest and most detailed level of tactical organisation, they show machine gun, trench mortar and battery emplacements, defended localities and areas, barbed-wire, trenches and saps, mine craters, and all other details of forward organisation. The whole of the German front facing the British forces is represented in this collection Ð from the North Sea at Nieuport, past the Ypres Salient and the Messines Ð Wytschaete Ridge to Ploegsteert Wood and Armentires; thence south past Fromelles, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Givenchy, Cuinchy, Auchy, Loos and Lens to the Vimy Ridge and Arras, then south again to the Somme battlefield and Hindenburg Line areas. There are also examples of German mapping further south in the area opposite the French Ð for example the Aisne (where British forces also operated in 1918), the Tahure and Prosnes region of the Champagne, and the Vosges. The maps show the war landscape of northern and eastern France and Belgium Ð Flanders, Artois, Picardy; Oise, Aisne, Champage and Vosges. The topography also indicates the crucial nature of the battlefield geology: the low-lying coastal polder and Lys valley areas; the deadly clay conditions of the Ypres Salient, aggravated by shell-fire and rain, in places created a porridge in which men and mules drowned, guns sank out of sight to be marked by flags, and tanks became bogged; the dry and rolling chalk downland south of Givenchy on the La Bassee canal, past Arras and Albert to the Somme, Cambrai, St. Quentin and the Hindenburg Line, the Aisne heights and the Champagne; the mountains of the Vosges.The many different types of maps illustrate the complexity of infantry, artillery and air operations on the Western Front, and the co-operation of all arms and logistical support services. Here are found secret<

ISBN: 1843425157

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