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Pill Boxes on the Western Front: A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes, 1914-1918 [Paperback]

Peter Oldham (Author)

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Publication Date: Mar 1 2011

When the First World War froze into a static line of trenches stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, the most obvious means of protection against the murderous machine-gun fire which both sides inflicted upon each other was some form of shell-proof shelter which from which fire could be returned in safety, hence the development of the pill box. The idea was certainly not new but the technology required to build them under the prevailing circumstances presented problems hitherto undreamed of. In this remarkably absorbing study of what at first seems a somewhat arcane study of what at first seems a somewhat arcane subject, Peter Oldham, himself a concrete technologist, examines the problems of the design and construction of the pill boxes of the Western Front. He describes how the innumerable difficulties involved in what might to the untrained eye seem to be a fairly simple structure, were gradually overcome. Containing as it does, a gazetteer of the remaining pill boxes and bunkers still to be found in Flanders and Picardy, this book will prove an invaluable guide to the members of many clubs and societies which annually make pilgrimages to the battlefields of the First World War and certainly add a new dimension and interest to their visits to the Western Front.

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Product Details

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books; Reprint edition (Mar 1 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848844395
ISBN-13: 978-1848844391
Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.4 x 23.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 458 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #657,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Workmanlike Study Sep 9 2012

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The book is everything it promises to be, but little more. It is a thorough examination of Western front pillboxes. Period and contemporary photographs are provided, as well as period sketches and blueprints. However, there is nothing that gives someone the verismilitude of constructing or living in one or the use of re-enactments or computer graphics.

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