Product Description

Everything you would ever want to know about the history and use of artillery Extremely detailed and not meant for the amateur. Cloth edition, $49. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222130 in Books
• Published on: 1989-01-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 385 pages

Customer Reviews

Correction to Misleading Description
Note from the author! The Amazon listing confuses two different books. Please do not confuse my new book of 2004 with an earlier version of 1989. The latter is labelled 'hard to find' by Amazon and there are apparently some used copies available, which you might buy in error, believing it to be the new one.

The new version is nearly twice the size and has only just been published in the USA and UK. Don't be put off buying the new one - it is easy to find and I am confident it is the one you will wish to read.

Apologies for giving it a predictable 'author's rating', but the system doesn't allow you to send a report without completing all fields!

Best wishes, Jonathan Bailey

ITS 'GUNNER' BE A BESTSELLER!
Once you've rifled through all the acknowledgements in this book, you are gunner be amazed by the expertise General Bailey has accumulated in this field. Not only a page turner, but a rapid fire assault on the senses! - i couldn't put it down! This is a must have for anyone interested in military history, and anyone who isn't. it stands alone as a work of Art... 'illery Clinton has also read it so i am told! go and buy this book now!

A Very Detailed Treatise
The is the "Artillery Bible" and like that book it takes rather a long time to read. Its emphasis is on artillery's place historically in the overall spectrum of firepower and how that place has varied in importance to military strategists over the years. Whilst the text is very generously supplied with detailed footnotes to illustrate the points made, it does not go into great detail about the hardware, techniques or applied science of artillery in the present or any other age. It contains very few illustrations and tables to break up the text and the photographs are monochrome. Thoroughly researched and superbly detailed in its intended thrust, it is likely to appeal more to staff officers, higher ranking artillerymen, strategists and military historians rather than those enlisted or civilian enthusiasts whose interests lean more towards military hardware, its operation and tactical application.