科图分类法:
D810.C7 版次:
科图分类法:
D810.C7 版次:
中图分类法:
E561.9 版次:
著者:
Godfrey, S.
题名:
British Army communications in the Second World War : [ lifting the fog of battle /] / ,
版次:
Paperback ed.
出版发行:
出版地: London, England ; 出版社: Bloomsbury, 出版日期: 2014.
载体形态:
xiv, 290 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of the set backs suffered by the Army but also that ultimate victory was only achieved after a successful communications system was in place. It explains how the outcome of the main campaigns in Europe and North Africa depended on communications, how the system operated and how it evolved from a relatively primitive and inadequately supplied state at Dunkirk to a generally effective system at the time of the Rhine crossings. Problems still occurred however, for example at infantry platoon level an