Warfare in Europe 1919—1938

Abstract

Contents: Series preface Introduction Part I Military Thought and Doctrine: British influence and the evolution of the Panzer arm: myth or reality, Azar Gat German armour doctrine: correcting the myths, R.L. DiNardo Beyond fire and movement: command, control and information in the German blitzkreig, Robert Citino Mass, mobility, and the Red Army's road to operational art 1918-1936, Jacob W. Kipp J.F.C. Fuller, Tukhachevsky and the Red Army, 1923-1941: the question of the reception of Fuller's military writings in the Soviet Union, Alaric Searle 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': French military doctrine between the world wars, Eugenia C. Kiesling. Part II Air Power: The Luftwaffe's army support doctrine, 1918-1941, James S. Corum Trenchard and 'morale bombing': the evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II, Philip S. Meilinger Fighter defence before fighter command: the rise of strategic air defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934, John Ferris. Part III The Soviet-Polish War: Two Views: The 'miracle of the Vistula': Soviet policy versus Red Army strategy, Thomas Fiddick Lenin, Stalin and the failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, Stephen Brown. Part IV Civil Wars and Insurgency: The Red Army and mass mobilization during the Russian civil war, 1918-1920, Orlando Figes The clash of Spanish armies: contrasting ways of war in Spain, 1936-1939, Michael Alpert Soviet tank operations in the Spanish civil war, Steven J. Zaloga The Irish Republican Army and the development of guerilla warfare, 1916-21, Charles Townshend. Part V On the Eve of the Great Patriotic War: The Soviet Union: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and war-economic planning: reconsiderations on the pre-war Soviet military build-up, L. Samuelson Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: military politics and exile, 1928-31, David R. Stone Company choir of terror: the military council of the 1930s - the Red Army between the XVIIth and XVIIIth party congresses, Frank Schauf