Fully detailed, illustrated account of all materiel used by the
Trench and Coastal Artillery forces. This third volume of the Guns of Victory
collection reviews two quite different types of equipment. Firstly, the Coast
Artillery, which as such played a very discreet role because the Allies had
mastery of the seas. Most of the guns however became famous in another role,
installed on railway carriages or on various other means of land transport
adapted to a static war.
The second group, the Trench Artillery, did not exist in
France at the beginning of the war
and had to be developed in chaotic conditions in the unexpected context of the
colossal siege warfare imposed on the belligerents on the Western Front in the
autumn of 1914.
From the modest grenade launcher to the gigantic 340 mm trench
mortar, this very structured volume deals with all the models of this frontline
artillery, scrupulously following the pattern of the two previous
volumes.
