Pill Boxes On the Western Front. A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes 1914-1918

Peter Oldham

ISBN 10: 0850524180 / ISBN 13: 9780850524185

Published by Leo Cooper, London, 1995

About this Item

208 pages. Illustrated. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Includes a gazetteer of the remaining pill boxes and bunkers still to be found in Flanders and Picardy. Ex-library copy with marked front endpaper and other label, but a very good plus reading copy. A little edgewear and bumping to bottom corners; two small nicks in dust-jacket.

Seller Inventory # 011962

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pill Boxes On the Western Front. A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes 1914-1918
• Publisher: Leo Cooper, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850524180
• ISBN 13: 9780850524185
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This comprehensive, illustrated account also contains a complete listing of all remaining bunkers and pillboxes in Belgium and France.

About the Author

Peter Oldham has a special interest in defence strategies and tactics of the First World War, ranging from the grand planning and organization of defence schemes to the parts played by the sapper who dug the trench and the tommy who has to man it. Having studied the evolution and changing theories of fixed and elastic systems, he then researched the part played by permanent fortifications and shell-proof protection for troops and services. His understanding of the problems of the supply and use of building and concreting materials is unrivalled. As a concrete technologist, he has spent twenty-five years testing and producing concrete materials and structures.