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Fields of Battle

Terrain in Military History

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  1. Peter Doyle

    1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK

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  2. Matthew R. Bennett

    1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 64)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Terrain in Military History: an Introduction

    • Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett
    Pages 1-7

  3. ‘Markings on the Land’ and Early Medieval Warfare in the British Isles

    • Kerry Cathers
    Pages 9-17

  4. Geology and Warfare in England and Wales 1450–1660

    • Trevor J. Halsall
    Pages 19-31

  5. Battles on Chalk: the Geology of Battle in Southern England during the First Civil War, 1643–1644

    • Trevor J. Halsall
    Pages 33-50

  6. Terrain and Guerrilla Warfare in Navarre, 1808–1814

    • Shell Kimble, Patrick O’Sullivan
    Pages 51-62

  7. Effective use of Terrain in the American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862

    • Judy Ehlen, Robert J. Abrahart
    Pages 63-97

  8. Tullahoma: Terrain and Tactics in the American Civil War

    • Walter Earl Pittman
    Pages 99-115

  9. The Mountain is their Monument: An archaeological Approach to the Landscapes of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

    • Tony Pollard
    Pages 117-135

  10. Maps and Decisions: Buller South and North of the Tugela, 1899–1900

    • Martin Marix Evans
    Pages 137-141

  11. The Thirty-Years War, 1914–1945: Mapping the Battlefields of the Past for the Construction of the European Future

    • Edmon Castell, Sònia Roura
    Pages 143-148

  12. Terrain and the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915

    • Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett
    Pages 149-169

  13. British, French and German Mapping and Survey on the Western Front in the First World War

    • Peter Chasseaud
    Pages 171-204

  14. Terrain and the Messines Ridge, Belgium, 1914–1918

    • Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett, Roy Macleod, Louise Mackay
    Pages 205-224

  15. Zero Hour: Historical Note on the British Underground War in Flanders, 1915–1917

    • Franky Bostyn
    Pages 225-236

  16. Mud, Blood, and Wood: BEF Operational and Combat Logistico-Engineering during the Battle of Third Ypres, 1917

    • Rob Thompson
    Pages 237-255

  17. Across the River: Interpreting the Battle of the Ebro or Battlefields as a Didactic Resource

    • Edmon Castell, Lluís Falcó
    Pages 257-264

  18. Fortification of Island Terrain: Second World War German Military Engineering on the Channel Island of Jersey, a Classic Area of British Geology

    • Edward P. F. Rose, W. Michael Ginns, John T. Renouf
    Pages 265-309

  19. Piracy on the High Desert: the Long-Range Desert Group 1940–1943

    • James R. Underwood Jr., Robert F. Giegengack
    Pages 311-324

  20. The Geology of the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944

    • John A. Ciciarelli
    Pages 325-343
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About this book

Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the landscapes of battle, and the geology which underlies them, has helped shape the cultural iconography of battle certainly within the 20th century. In the last few years this has become a fertile topic of scientific and historical exploration and has given rise to a number of conferences and books. The current volume stems from the international Terrain in Military History conference held in association with the Imperial War Museum, London and the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, at the University of Greenwich in January 2000. This conference brought together historians, geologists, military enthusiasts and terrain analysts from military, academic and amateur backgrounds with the aim of exploring the application of modem tools of landscape visualisation to understanding historical battlefields. This theme was the subject of a Leverhulme Trust grant (F/345/E) awarded to the University of Greenwich and administered by us in 1998, which aimed to use the tools of modem landscape visualisation in understanding the influence of terrain in the First World War. This volume forms part of the output from this grant and is part of our wider exploration of the role of terrain in military history. Many individuals contributed to the organisation of the original conference and to the production of this volume.

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"Fields of Battles is scholarly, enjoyable to read and certainly relevant for a wide range of academics and professionals. The book will be of interest to many geographers."
(The Professional Geographer June (2003)

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  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK

    Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett

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