The Civil War Military Machine: Weapons and Tactics of the Union and Confederate Armed Forces

Ian Drury, Tony Gibbons

ISBN 10: 0831713259 / ISBN 13: 9780831713256

Published by Smithmark Publishers, NewYork, 1993

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Sticker van boekhandel op schutblad English The Civil War Military Machine offers a comprehensive visual and written exploration of the weaponry, tactics, and infrastructure that defined the American Civil War. Drury and Gibbons detail the full arsenal used by both Union and Confederate forces?ranging from pistols, rifles, carbines, and machine guns to field artillery, siege weapons, naval ordnance, and ironclad vessels. The text includes in-depth analyses of battle strategies and key engagements such as the defenses of Charleston, supported by over 400 color illustrations, technical drawings, and battlefield diagrams. It stands as a singular, richly documented reference on the military technology and tactical innovations of the first modern war.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Civil War Military Machine: Weapons and Tactics of the Union and Confederate Armed Forces
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers, NewYork
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0831713259
• ISBN 13: 9780831713256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Society and Social Sciences

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Synopsis

Any Civil War buff will treasure this lavishly illustrated volume depicting the tactics and strategies of the Civil War and profiling the large selection of military equipment used by both sides.

Reviews

Drury, an editor of Combat & Survival (a subscription-only British periodical devoted to military uniforms and gear), and Gibbons, author and illustrator of books on battleships and Civil War naval history, have composed the only book on the Civil War to date that describes small arms (handguns and rifles), field and siege artillery, naval ordinance, and ships. The strong point of the book are Gibbons's excellent illustrations (over 400 in color), which not only portray the weapons of the Union and the Confederacy but also provide unique perspective drawings of battles and landscape and cross sections of weapons, forts, and naval vessels. Drury's text offers insight into how modern technology would alter future tactics--the Civil War being the first experiment in modern warfare. No other single volume on Civil War weapons contains information on so many different weapon systems. Recommended for all collections.
- Richard Nowicki, Emerson Vocational H.S., Buffalo, N.Y.
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