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Author Unknown. "The First Effective Use of Rifle Cannon in Sieges," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.43 (January-February 1917); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No. 6236} [Ft.Pulaski, 1862]
Beach, Lt.Col., Corps of Engineers. "Notes on Damp-proofing of magazines," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.I, No.4 (October-December 1909); 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6156}[From abstract of report by Lt.Col.Beach]
Burnett, Lt. Charles, Fourth Cavalry, Military Attache at Tokyo, Japan (Translated from Japanese). "Field Fortifications Based on Practical Experiences of the Russian-Japanese War," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.VI, No.29 (September-October 1914); 16 pages, 17 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6215}[Includes: War experiences and how to utilize them, Plans, Orders for intrenching and examples of execution: Introduction, Shape of profile models, Drainage, shelter and clearing of ground in front, Manner of using intrenching tools, and the tool column. Technical artillery works, Offensive infantry works] [Reprinted from The Journal of the United States Cavalry Association]
Conner, Major William D., Corps of Engineers. "Reboubts and Field Fortifications," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.II, No.8 (October-December 1910); 25 pages, 13 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6167} [A detailed article on Reboubts (early strongpoints) followed by a comments from eight other engineer officers.]
Daley, Capt.E.L., Corps of Enginners. "The Modern Siege," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.VI, No.26 (March-April 1914); 40 pages Price 4.00 {Item No.6209} [Includes: Its general principles and the importance of their study, The defense, Conclusion]
Downing, Captain Frederick B., Corps of Engineers. "The Selection and Occupation of Lines of Battle," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.VII, No.31 (January-February 1915); 26 pages, 3 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6219} [As related to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, especially the Russian experience in the Battle of Liaoyang and has a considerable number of notes on fortification.]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Gun Carriages and Casemates,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 7 pages, +19 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22306} [Detailed illustrations of Gun Carriages in use]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Fortifications (General),"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 6 pages, 9+ illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.22307} [The state for fortification construction, what is coming down and what is going up, with the reasoning behind it]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Fortifications (Seacoast and Harbor Defenses),"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 39+ pages, 24+ illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.22308} [Siege of Sebastopol: Detailed tactical assessment of the bombarment between the fleet and the casemated coastal forts, the land defenses; Defenses of St.Petersburg: Fort Menchicoff, Kronslot Battery, Fort Paul, Fort Alexander; Fort Peter; Defenses of the Harbor of Sebastopol, Fort Catharine, Ft.Michael, Ft.Alexander, Ft.Nicholas, Ft.Paul; The Siege of Sebastopol (detailed asssement, with many illustrations)]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Harbor Defenses - Cherbourg,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 14 Pages, 13+illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.22317}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Naval Depot at Toulon,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 4 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.22318}
Delafield, Richard, Major."English System of Harbor Defense,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 8 pages, 12 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.22319}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Sardinian Naval Depot at Genoa,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 3 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.22320}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Austrian System of Harbor Defense,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 12 pages, 13 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22321}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Prussian System of Harbor Defense,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 12 pages, 8+ illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22322}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Theory and Practice of Modern Systems of Fortifications,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 6 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22324} [Introduction to the following sections on Fortification systems]
Delafield, Richard, Major."French Systems of Fortification,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 25+pages, 11 Plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.22325} [France has many schools of Fortifications] [School of Mezieres, or the System of Chatillion and Dubigman, A.D.1750; School of Mezieres, under Dobenheim and Lesage, or Modern System; System of Dufour, A.D.1814; System of Noizet, A.D. 1822; System of General Haxo, A.D. 1826; Choumara's System, A.D.1846; Resume of Choumara's Proposed Improvemenrs, Comparison between the theoretic systems, and the recent practice of the French Engineers, as at Paris, Lyons, Grenoble and Bayonne; Forts at Lyons, Forts on the left bank of the Rhone]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Modern German System of Fortification,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 34+ pages, 10 plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.22326} [Elementary Works of a Front, Independent Defensible Works, Different Traces of the German System, General defects attached to the German System, Application of the German System to the strengthing and modifying existing Fortresses]
Delafield, Richard, Major."Russian System of Fortification,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 6 pages, 2+ illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22327}
Delafield, Richard, Major."Ancient System of Fortification -- Perfect Example of Constantinople,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 3 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.22328}
Ehrnbeck, Lieut.A.R., Corps of Engineers, Translator. "Japanese Views on the Attack and Defense of Field Fortifications," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.19 (January-Feburary 1913); 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6192}
Frazier, Capt.L.V., Corps of Engineers. "A Two-Company Infantry Reboubt," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.IV, No.14 (March-April 1912); 23 pages, 2 illus. 1 map Price 3.00 {Item No.6182} [A complete example of the construction of a infantry reboubt for training purposes, plus commentary and a extensive discussion after the article]
Hall, First Lieut.C.L., Corps of Engineers, Translator. "German Regulations for Field Fortifications and Conclusions Rearched in Russia from the Battles in Defensive Positions in Manchuria," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.II, No.7 (July-September 1910); 23 pages, 12 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6166} [Translated from The Militar Woehenblatt by the Editorial Staff, assisted by First Lieut. C. L. Hall, Corps of Engineers]
Harts, Major W.W., Corps of Engineers. "Notes on Field Fortification," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.23 (September-October 1913); 26 pages, 4 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6197} [Includes: General principles, Tactical use of trenches, Trenches on the offensive, Defensive use, Division into sectors, General reserve, Location of trenches, High or low sites, Artillery disposition, Single defensive line, 2d Part — Entrenches lines, General location, Trench profiles, Overhead cover, Loopholes, Drainage, Obstacles, Execution of entrenchments]
Johnson, Captain W.C., 26th Infantry, U.S.Army and Captain E.S.Hartshorn, 3rd Infantry, U.S.Army. "The Development of Field Fortifications in the Civil War," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.VII, No.35 (September-October 1915); 33 pages Price 3.50 {Item No.6224} [Their tactical history and importance, not technical detail]
Mahan, D.H.."On the Effects of Musketry and Artillery, and means of directing their fire to obtain the best results,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Introductory Chapter; 13 pages, 3 tables Price 2.00 {Item No.20884} [Including: Remarks on target practice of small arms, Probable effects of small arms, Ranges and probable effects of field artillery, Selection of positions for field batteries, Management of the fire of batteries,Position of batteries in attacking and defending intrenchments, Effects of batteries for harbor defence]
Mahan, D.H.."Nomenclature and General Principles,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter I; 10 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20885} [Including: Art of Fortification, Permanent, and field Fortification, Intrenchments, General conditions of intrenchments, General form of the profile, General arrangement of the plan, Flanked disposition, Dead angle, Sector without fire, General outline of the attack of intrenchments, General measures for the defence, General principles of the plan and profile]
Mahan, D.H.."Plan of Simple Intrenchments, or, the Elements of Lines,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter II; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20886} [Including: Site, command, and relief, Line of direction of fire, Directing line of the plan, Elements of intrenchments, The Redan, The Lunette, The Cremaillere, The Priest-Cap, The Redoubt, The Star fort, The Bastion fort, Relation between the extent of intrenchments and the troops for their defence, Conditions that a Field Fort should satisfy]
Mahan, D.H.."Discussion of the General Profile,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter III; 6 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20887} [Including: General dimensions of the parapet, Command of the interior crest, Thickness of the parapet, Inclination of the superior slope, Inclination of the exterior slope, Inclination of the interior slope, Tread of the Banquette, The Berm, General dimensions of the ditch, Slopes of the Scarp and Counterscarp, Approximate method of regulating the dimensions of the Ditch] [4 tables: Penetration into well rammed earth composed of half sand and half clay, Penetration of musket balls, Penetration (of artillery) into rough good limestone masonry, with charge one third the weight of the ball, Penetration (of artillery) into oak wood with same charge (all tables have rules for calculating various other materiels]
Mahan, D.H.."Manner of Regulating the Relief of Intrenchments or Irregular Sites,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter IV; 8 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20888} [Including: Influence of the site on the plan and relief, Defilement from a direct fire, Defilement from a reverse fire, Method of determining the dimensions of the traverse, for reverse defilement, Defilement of enclosed works, General remarks on the defilement of works]
Mahan, D.H.." Manner of Throwing up a Work,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter V; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20889} [Including: Method of profiling. Estimate of the daily labor of a man working on an intrenchment, Distribution of the working parties, Manner of forming the excavation and embankment, Precaution to be taken in stony soils, Drainage of the Terre-Plein, Time required to construct a work]
Mahan, D.H.."Revetments,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter VI; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20890} [Including: Revetments, Sod revetment, Pisa revetment, Fascine revetment, Hurdle revetment, Gabion revetment, Plank revetment, Sand-bag revetment, Timber revetment of the ditch]
Mahan, D.H.."Accessory, or Secondary Means of Defence,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter VII; 8 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20891} [Including: Remarks on obstacles on the exterior, Artificial obstacles, Troups-de-loup, Abattis, Palisades, Fraises, Stoccades, Chevaux-de-frise, Small pickets, Crow feet, Artificial inundation, Mines]
Mahan, D.H.."Interior Arrangements,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter VIII; 18 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20892} [Including: Interior arrangements for the defence, Armament of musketry and artillery, Remarks on the employment of artillery, Batteries, Barbette battery, Embrasure battery, Platforms, Powder magazines, Traverses, Enclosures for gorges and outlets, Outlets, Barriers, Safety redoubt, Blockhouses, Ditch Defences]
Mahan, D.H.."Lines or Complex Intrenchments,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter IX; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20893} [Including: Classes of lines, Principles regulating the plan of lines, Continued lines, Lines with intervals, System of general Rogniat, General observations on lines]
Mahan, D.H.."The Adaptation of Intrenchments to Particular Localities,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter X; 16 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20894} [Including: Intrenchments of mountainous sites, Intrenchment of forests, Intrenchments of marshes, Intrenchment of rivers, Intrenchments of villages, Military posts, Arrangements of hedges for defence, Arrangement of walls for defence, Barricades, Defensive arrangement of houses, Military positions]
Mahan, D.H.."Attack and Defence of Intrenchments,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter XI; 12 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.20895} [Including: Operations preliminary to the attack of intrenchment, Attack by surprise, Attack by open force, Measures to be taken in the defence]
Mahan, D.H.."Outlines of the General Properties of Permanent Works and the Method of Attacking Them,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter XIV; 6 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20898} [Including: Permanent fortification, General properties of permanent works, General principles that permanent works should satisfy, Description and properties of the outworks, Object of interior retrenchments, Arrangement of the crest of the glacis, Object of traverses in covered way, Communications of permanent works, Relief and command of the outworks, Uses of counterscarp galleries, Uses of casemates, General outline of the attack of permanent works, General outline of the defence of permanent works, Uses of permanent works]
Mahan, D.H.."Note A. Relation between the Terre-plein and Interior Crest of the Square Redoubt,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848); 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20899} [Manner of determining the proportion between the terre-plein of a Square Redoubt, the development of its interior crest, and the size of its garrision]
Mahan, D.H.."Note B. Method of equalizing the excavation and embankment of a field work,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848); 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20900} [Manner of equalizing the Excavation of the Ditch, and the Embankment of the Parapet]
Mahan, D.H.."The Manner of Representing, by Drawing, Field Fortifications and the Ground Occupied by them,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Introductory, Chapter I; 6 pages, 3 illus. Price $.50 {Item No.20850}[Including: Drawing requisite, Section Profile, Plan, Elevation, Horizontal Sites, Irregular Sites, References, Horizontal Curves, Plane of Reference, Negative References, References on Sections, References of Points and Right Lines, Manner of Drawing a Profile, Manner of Writing Numbers Expressing Dimensions, Scale of Drawing, Manner of Drawing Plan and Section on Irregular Sites]
Mahan, D.H.."On the Effects of Musketry and Artillery, and the Means of Directing their Fire to Obtain the Best Results,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Introductory, Chapter II; 20 pages, 1 illus., many tables Price $2.00 {Item No.20851} [Including: Remarks on Target Practice of Smooth-Bore Small Arms, Probable Effects of Small Arms, Ranges and Probable Effects of Smooth-Bore Field Artillery, Selection of Positions for Field Batteries, Management of the Fire of Batteries, Position of Batteries in Attacking or Defending Intrenchments, Effects, ect., of Batteries for Harbor Defense, Table giving the Penetration of the Projectiles of Smooth-Bore Cannon, etc., into various Media, Penetrations of Musket Balls, Penetrations of Cannon Balls and Shells, Penetrations of Projectiles of Rifled Cannon, Penetrations of Projectiles of Rifled Small Arms]
Mahan, D.H.."General Principles and Nomenclature,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter I ; 6 pages, 4 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20852}[Including: General Conditions of Defensive Positions, Fortifications, Temporary and Permanent, Intrenchments, Lines, Intrenched Position, Field Work, Essential Components of Fortifications, Parapet, Epaulment, Traverse, Ditch, Banquette, Banquette Slope, Interior Slope, Superior Slope, Exterior Slope, Berm, Scarp, Counterscarp, Glacis, Trench, Approaches, Sector without Fire, Dead Angle, Front, Flank, and Cross-Fire Flanked Disposition]
Mahan, D.H.."Field Works on a Horizontal Site,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter II; 13 pages, 9 illus. Price $2.00 {Item No.20853}[Including: Site, Command, Relief, Direct, Slant, Enfilading, Reverse, and Cross Fire, Relations of Parts in Flanked Dispositions, Classes of Field Works, First Class, Right Line, Serrated Line, Second Class, Redan, Priest Cap, Lunette, Third Class, Redoubt, Star Forts, Bastioned Forts, Terre-plein of Field Works, Characteristics of Field Works]
Mahan, D.H.."Intrenchments, or Lines, on a Horizontal Site,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter III ; 7 pages, 6 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20854}[Including: Classes of Line, Redan Line, Tenaille Line, Bastioned Lines, Lines of Detached Works, Rogniat’s Line, Multiple Lines]
Mahan, D.H.."General Profiles for a Horizontal Site,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter IV; 9 pages, 2 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20855}[Including: General Profile, Command of Parapet, Normal Command, Profile of Isolated Works, Thickness of Parapet, Superior Slope, Exterior Slope, Interior Slope, Banquette Tread, Berm, Dimensions of Ditch, Scrap and Counterscarp, Height of Salients]
Mahan, D.H.."Manner of Profiling, Tracing, and Throwing up a Work,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter V; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price $.50 {Item No.20856} [Including: Profiling and Tracing, Distributing of Working Parties, Construction of Parapet, Tasking]
Mahan, D.H.."Revetments,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter VI. ; 9 pages, 10 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20857}[Including: Revetments, Revetment of Sods, Pisa Revetment, Fascine Revetment, Hurdle Revetment, Gabion Revetment, Plank Revetment, Sand Bags, Scarp Revetment]
Mahan, D.H.."Interior Arrangements,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter VII; 28 pages, 34 illus. Price $3.00 {Item No.20858}[Including: Classification, Musketry Armament, Artillery Armament, Batteries, Barbettes, Embrasures, Platforms, Powder Magazine, Splinter Proof, Bomb Proof Magazine, Bomb Proof Shelters, Traverses, Enclosures for Gorges, Outlets, Barrier, Draw-Bridge, Safety Redoubt, Block House with Parapet, American Block House, American Two Story Block House, Ditch Defenses, Caponnieres, Counterscrap Gallery and Scrap Gallery]
Mahan, D.H.."Accessory or Secondary Means of Defence,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter VII; 10 pages, 7 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20859}[Including: Disposition of Obstacles, Obstruction of Approaches, Classes of Obstacles, Trous-de-loup, Abattis, Palisades, Fraise, Stoccade, Chevaux-de-frise, Small Pickets, Crow’s foot, Inundations, Mines, Stone, Torpedoes]
Mahan, D.H.."Adaptation of Field Fortification to Irregular Sites,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter IX; 19 pages, 15 illus. Price $2.00 {Item No.20860} [Including: General Considerations, Strategical and Tactical Considerations, Frontier Defenses, Tactical Considerations, Military Positions, Mountainous Heights, Forests, Marches, Rivers, Bridge Heads, Villages, Military Posts, Hedges, Walls, Barricades, Houses]
Mahan, D.H.."Semi-Permanent Field Works,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter X; 4 pages, 3 illus. Price $.50 {Item No.20861}[Including: General Considerations, Character of Works, Exterior Defenses, General and Detachment Plan]
Mahan, D.H.."Defilement of Lines and Field Works,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter XI; 10 pages, 7 illus. Price $1.00 {Item No.20862}[Including: General Considerations, Defilement, Defilement of Lines, Defilement of Field Works, Practical Direct Defilement, Practical Reverse Defilement, Ditch of Defiled Works]
Mahan, D.H.."Attack and Defense of Temporary Fortifications,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Field Fortification, Chapter XII; 8 pages Price $1.00 {Item No.20863} [Including: Attack, Attack by Surprise, Attack by Open Force, Defence, Sorties]
Mahan, D.H.."Trench Materials and Trenches,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter I; 14 pages, 17 illus. Price $2.00 {Item No.20868}[Including: Regular Approaches, Trench Materials, Trenches, Approaches, Parallels, Simple Trench, Flying Sap, Full Sap, Double Sap, Half Double Sap, Practical Defilement of Trenches, Trench Cavalier]
Mahan, D.H.."Covered Trenches and Passages of Ditches,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter II; 5 pages, 4 illus. Price $.50 {Item No.20869}[Including: Blindages, Blindages Frames, Blinding Descent, Gallery Descent, Passages of Dry Ditch, Passage of Wet Ditch, Splinter Proofs]
Mahan, D.H.."Batteries,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter III; 18 pages, 11 illus. Price $2.00 {Item No.20870}[Including: Enfilading and Counter Batteries, Powder Magazines, Mortar Batteries, Observatories, Breach Batteries]
Mahan, D.H.."Siege Operations — Attack,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter IV; 25 pages, 1 illus. Price $3.00 {Item No.20871}[Including: Periods of a Siege, First Period, Investment, Posting Besieging Force, Intrenchments of Camps, Army of Observation, Preparations for Opening the Trenches, Point of Attack, Plan of Attack, Parallels, 1st Parallel, 2d Parallel, 3d Parallel, Demi-Parallels, Approaches, Batteries, Strength of Batteries, Blinded Batteries, Sorties, Opening the Trenches, Journal of Attack, Third Period]
Mahan, D.H.."Defence,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter V; 10 pages Price $1.00 {Item No.20872}[Included: Defence: Means of Defence, First Period: Measures during the Investment, Second Period: Measures against the Opening of the Trenches, Sorties, Armament of Point of Attack, Counter Approaches, Daily Guard, Sorties, Distribution of Artillery. Third Period: Distribution of Artillery, Gun Shelters, Distribution of Daily Guard, Small Sorties, Defensive against Gradual Approaches, Defensive against Open Assault, Distribution of Artillery against Breaching Batteries, Defence of Ditches, Defence of Breaches]
Mahan, D.H.."Plan and Journal of the Attack,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter VI; 13 pages, 2 illus. Price $2.00 {Item No.20873}[Including: Plan and Journal of the Attack]
Mahan, D.H.."Illustrations of Siege Works from some of the more recent sieges,"Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865), Siege Operations. Attack by Regular Approaches, Chapter VII; 9 pages Price $1.00 {Item No.20874}[Including: Siege of Sebastopol, Siege of Vicksburg, Siege of Fort Wagner]
Mahan, D.H. "Preliminary Considerations and Component Elements of Permanent Defenses," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter I; 44 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.20875} [Including: Permanent fortification, its objects and means of attainment, Description and analysis of the usual general profile, Description of recent modified profile, Command, Description and discussion of scarps, Counterscraps, Ditch, Face covers, General remarks on the general profile, Classes of open defenses, Loop holed walls, Exterior corridors, Barbette batteries, Embrasure batteries, Machicouli defences, Detached scarp walls, Semi-detached scarp walls, Scarp galleries, Counterscarp galleries, Bastionnets, Caponniere defences for enceinte ditch, General remarks, Casemates on land fronts, Mortar casemates, Casemates on water fronts, Embrasures of casemates, Bomb-proof buildings, Powder magazines, General remarks on communications, Particular conditions that communications should satisfy, Ramps, Stairs, Posterns, Gateway, Port-Cullis, Classes of enceintes, Systems and methods of fortification, General remarks, General remarks on outworks, Covered way, Places of arms, Traverses, Tenaille, Demi-lune, Counterguard, Redoubts, Tenaillion, Horn-work, Crown-work, Advanced and detached works, Interior retrenchments and cavaliers]
Mahan, D.H. "Systems of Fortification," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter II; 61 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.20876} [Including: Description and analysis of the bastioned system, Methods of Vauban, Description of Vauban’s 1st method, Description and analysis of Cormontaigne’s method, Method of schools of Mezieres and Metz, Noizet’s method, Choumara’s method]
Mahan, D.H. "Tennailled System," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter III; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20877} [Including: Description and analysis of the system]
Mahan, D.H. "Polygonal System," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter IV; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20878} [Including: Description and analysis of the Polygonal system, Montalembert’s Polygonal method: Plan, Profiles]
Mahan, D.H. "Recent German Fortifications," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter V; 17 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20879} [Including: System adopted, General conditions, Independent works, Defensive barracks, Profiles, Casemates, Posterns, Mines, Powder magazines, Revetments, Casemates for artillery, Casemates traverses, Caponnieres for enceinte ditch, Bastionnets for ditch defences, Detail of defensive barrack, Description of the fronts of Posen, Description of Fort Alexander, Remarks, Description of German forts]
Mahan, D.H. "Influence of Irregularities of Site on the Forms and Combinations of the Elements of Permanent Works," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter VI; 19 pages, 1 page of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20880} [Including: General conditions, Conditions of commands, Adaptation of plan to the site, Remarks, Remarks on the defilement of permanent works, Data for the defilement of permanent works, Limits of defilement, Dangerous zones of the site, Portions of zones that may be disregarded, Defilement of masonry, Limits of defilement of small works, Front and lateral limits, Remarks, Cases of defilement, Front defilement of a redan, Position of traverse for reverse defilement, Forms and arrangement of traverse, Combinations of several traverses, General case of the defilement of a bastion, Defilement of retired from advanced works, Defilement by a parados, General remarks]
Mahan, D.H. "Accessory Means of Defense," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter VII; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20881} [Including: Water as an accessory, Marshy sites, Artificial inundations , Water applied as an active means of defence, Natural and artificial beds of rock as an accessory, Stumps of trees as an obstruction, Mines as an accessory]
Mahan, D.H. "The Defensive Organization of Frontiers with Permanent Fortifications," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter VIII; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20882} [Including: Options held by prominent military authorities on the necessity of fortified frontiers, Remarks on arbitrary systems of frontier defences, Remarks on the organization of the frontier defenses of the United States, Important points to be fortified, Rivers and mountain ranges as natural defensive lines, Advantages offered both in defensive and offensive operations by fortified points on rivers, Points to be fortified in mountain ranges, Defensive means adopted for the coasts of the United States, Character of the works necessary for sea coast defences, Defenses for important commercial marts and naval depots, Defences of important extensive roadsteads, Opinions entertained by foreign military authorities on the fortification in a permanent manner of important inland centres of population, Fortifications of Paris and Lyons in France, Objectives to the adoption of European practice for the defences of large cities of the United States]
Mahan, D.H. "Summary of the Progress and Changes of Fortification," Military Engineering (Part II. Permanent Fortifications (1867)), Chapter IX; 17 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20883} [Including: Fortification as seen in the earliest stages, Enclosures of simple stone walls and towers, Insufficiency of simple walls and towers against improved means of offense, Introduction of ditches and wide ramparts as defensive features, Examples of the great strength and extent of some ancient fortifications, Methods of attack used by the Ancients, Defensive measures employed by the Ancients, Rise and fall of the art under the Romans, Progress of the art under the Western Empire, Condition of the art under the Feudal system, Castellated fortifications of the Feudal period, Fortifications of cities during the same period, Changes in the art occasioned by the invention of gunpowder, First appearance of the bastioned system and the changes consequent upon it, Italian school of engineers, Spainish school, Dutch school, German school, Swedish school, French school, Methods and progress of the attack from the invention of gunpowder to the time of Vauban, Changes and improvements made in the methods of attack by Vauban, Remarks on the present general condition of the art, Present condition of the art in the United States]
Roewade, Mr.Alfred J., Civil Engineer, Reminiscences. "How Copenhagen was Fortified," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.III, No.12 (October-December 1911); 15 pages, 3 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6179} [A city that was fortified by a private association]
Rose, Lieut.W.H., Corps of Engineers. "Electricity in the Work of the Corps of Engineers," Professonal Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.I, No.3 (July-September 1909); 22 pages Price 2.50{Item No.6152} [Mostly concerned with electrical engineering related to seacoast fortifications and field operations]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Abattis,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20265} [Cut tree obstacles]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Attack of Fortresses,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 31 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20270} [Includes: Number of troops for a siege, Officers of engineers, Stores, Investment, Encampments, and Lines of circum- and counter-vallation, &c., up to the opening of the trenches, Object and Principles of Attacks, Principles that may serve to guide the determining of the front for attack, Preparation for opening the trenches, Military labour, Arrangements peculiar to the engineer Department, Direction to the officers and engineers, and their distribution, Opening of the trenches and first parallel, Sorties, Second parallel, Of the means of reducing the defenses and subduing the fire of the place: Enfilade, Ricochet, Direct fire of artillery to ruin the parapets, Musketry, Pierriers or stone mortars and coehorns, & c.. Third parallel]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Attack of Posts,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 16 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20271} [Includes: Introduction, Surmounting obstacles, How to Deal with an abattis, How to overcome other impediments, Of attacks by surprise, Distribution of the assailants, &c., Of the attack, Blowing open barriers, &C., Securing possession of a post after a surprise, Of attacks by open force, Attack of an intrenched village, Attack of fleche, earth-work, open in the rear, a redoubt, &c.. Attack of a fortified building]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Attack of Posts: Appendix: Assault,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages, Price .50 {Item No.20272}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Barricade,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20274} [Includes: Barricading in towns, Barricading on the outskirts of towns]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Barrier,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20275}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Battery,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 32 pages, 21 illus. plus 4 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20276} [Includes: Preliminary remarks, Siege batteries: Section I. Definition, Section II. Batteries for the first object, or destruction of defences, Section III. breaching batteries, Section IV. Construction of batteries for ruining the defences, Section V. Trace of the elevated battery for guns or howitzers on the natural level of the soil, Section VI. Construction of batteries for the destruction of defences, Section VII. Breaching and counter batteries, Section VIII. Revetting siege batteries: Sandbags, Gabions, Fascines, Revetment of mortar batteries. , Section IX. Platforms--Common oblong batteries: Introduction, Madras platform, Siege gun and mortar platforms, invented by Lt.Gen.Alderson, R.E.. Section X. Traverses, Section XI. Magazines, Tracing and execution of a triangular field magazine, Section XII. Remarks on siege platforms: Introduction, Elevating battery, built on the natural surface of the ground, Half sunken battery, Full sunken battery. Section XIII. Position and construction of field batteries, Battery Tables I-VIII]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Blindage,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20277} [Shelters against artillery fire] [Includes: Introduction, Horizontal blindage, Sloping blindages, Blindages made with small scanting]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Blockhouse,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20280}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bombardment,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20282} [Includes: General, Value of mortars at a siege, Strength of arches]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Boom,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20283} [Includes: General, Details of construction for chain boom, Hemp cable booms]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Breach,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20284} [Breach effected by artillery in fortifications, etc.] [Includes: Historical examples of effects]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Camp, Intrenched,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20304}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Caponiere,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20305} [Ditch fighting bunker]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Castramentation,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 7 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20309} [Includes: General, Hutting, Outposts]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Chevaux-de-Frize,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20310} [Movable wooden spike obstacle]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Command,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20312} [Siege notes] [Abridged from 'Sieges in Spain' by Major General Sir J.T.Jones]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defense of Building and Village,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 14 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20316} [Includes: Of placing building, &c. in a state of defense, Collecting materials, Barricading doors, Barricading windows, Leveling obstructions outside, Ditches in front of the doors, &c., Loopholes, Communications, Abattis, Tamdours, Out-buildings and walls Defense of Villages, Guarding and defending an intrenched village] [by Lt.Col.Jebb]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defensive Elements,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 9 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20317} [The use of vegetation for fortifications, and the effect of rifle fire on different colors of uniforms]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defence of Fortresses,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 25 pages, 3 illus. plus 1 plate of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20318} [Includes: The reconnaissance of the ground outside the place, The reconnaissance of the fortification, Of the artillery and ammunition, Of the engineers, and the materials relating to the defence, Of the provisions, and the other matters belonging to the commissariat, Returns of stores and materials; of provisions; and of arrangements to prevent fire, Of those preparations for defence with belong to the state of war, and especially on the prospect of a siege, Of the state of siege, divided into five heads; and treating of irregular attacks, which may place a fortress suddenly in a state of siege: First head, Second head, Third head, Fourth head, Fifth head. Of sieges, or regular attacks: first head, second head, Third head. Appendix I: Proportion of artillery necessary. Appendix II: Proportion of officers of engineers, sappers and miners, and engineer stores, necessary for a siege. Appendix III: Provisionment of fortified places. Appendix IV. Appendix V. Mining operations which may be undertaken in the defence of fortresses without countermines] [References articles: Bridge, Blindage, Coast Defences, Defensive elements, Boom, Bombardment, Defense of coasts, Blockade, military, Attack, Defensive precautions, Fougass, Military mine, Sapping, Battery]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defensive Precautions,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20319} [Includes: Masking works, Chains of advanced sentries, Defensively]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defence of Coasts,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 12 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20320} [Includes: General considerations, The nature of works most suitable for coast defences, Appendix I. Platforms--traversing, iron. Appendix II. Service sur les cotes] [References article: Artillery]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Defilade,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 9 pages, 15 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20321} [The Firing technique of avoiding being enfiladed, or preventing the unnecessary exposure of the exterior or interior of fortifications]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Epaulement,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 1 pages Price .50 {Item No.20335} [Proper military definition, as a fortification term, not as a part of a uniform]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Escalde,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 9 pages, 12 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20341} [How to storm a wall using ladders]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fascine,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20344} [Notes on making]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fire, Vertical,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20346} [High angle mortar fire] [References articles: 'Artillery' Tables E &F, 'Attack', 'Breach', 'Defense of places']
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part I: Field Fortification,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 20 pages, 11 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20352} [Includes: Preliminary Observations, Field Fortifications, Part I - Section I, Section II, Section III - General principles, Section IV -Description of Field Works, Section V - Obstacles and auxilliaries of defense, Section VI -Time required to execute field-works, distribution of workmen, and number of men necessary for the defence, as applicable to Part I, Section VII - Trace, Profile, and Construction of field-works, Section VIII - Gates or barriers, draining and communications, Section IX. Conclusions. Part II - Temporary fortifications, Section I - Introduction, Section II - Breastworks, Section III - Defense of hedges, roads, &c, Part IV - Defense of walls, Part V- Stockade-work.] [This document references the following other articles in this book: Abattis, Barriers, Battery, Blockhouse, Chevaux De Frise, Dams, Defilade, Drain, Fascines, Fougasses, Fraises, Gabions, Palisades, Quarrying, Stockades, Trous-de-loup]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part I: Works in front of Lisbon,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 10 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20353} [Includes: Workmen, Superintendence, Mode of payment, Materials, Stores, &c. how obtained, Trace of several works, Interior and other defences, Situations of the works, Profiles, Platforms, Barriers, Abattis, Trous-de-loup, Artillery, Calculation of garrisons, Scarps, Roads and communications, Telegraphs, Intermediate works]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part I: Field Fortresses, of Places du Moment,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20354}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part I: Detached Forts,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages, 5 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20355}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II: Permanent Fortification,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20356} [Includes: Part I, Section I. Profile, Rampart, Scarp walls, Counterforts, Comparison of the different scarp walls, Covert way, Glacis, Construction of profile. Section II. Trace, Bastioned fronts, Counterscarp, Polygonal trace, Ravelin, Covert way, Tenaille, Communications, Bomb proof cover]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II: Coehorn's System,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20357} [Includes: Section I. Advantages claimed, Section II. Capabilities of resisting an attack]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II: Bastion System,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 8 pages, 8 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20358} [Includes: Section I, Section II. Of the several means to add to the value of the bastion system, Section III. Advanced and detached works, Section IV. Batteries casemated A L'Haxo. Trace of Chasseloup, Section V. Conclusion. Section VI. Details of bastioned systems - Vauban, The modern]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II:Montalembert's System,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20359}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II:Carnot's System,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20360} [Includes: Section I - Introduction, Section II - Application of this principles to a special system of fortification, Section III - Remarks upon Carnot's systems]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II:German System,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 14 pages, 3 Plates of illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20361}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II: Observations on the Nature of Fortresses, Irrespective of Systems,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 3 pages, Price .50 {Item No.20362}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fortification: Part II:Appendix A, Report of Experiments carried on at Woolwich in 1822, against Carnot's Detached Revetment,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 7 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20363} [Includes results tables with various types of artillery against the fortification]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Fraise,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20366} [Wooden stake berm obstacle]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Gabion,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 5 pages, 9 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20369} [Includes: Introduction, On Iron Gabions, Comparison on Gabions (Wood and iron types), Stuffed Gabions, or sap Rollers]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Guard-House, Defensible,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 5 pages, 11 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20373} [Some would call it a Blockhouse]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Guerite,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages, 1 Plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20374} [Also called Echauguette. Projecting stone or brick bastion sentry box of turret]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Hurdle,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20383} [A strong wicker work in rectangular form used in fortification]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Loophole,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 9 pages, 9 figures and 3 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20391} [Includes: General article, and Description of a revolving iron loophole invented by T.F.Haulon, Clerk of works, R.E.D., plus Notes on embrasures]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Machicoulis,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 3 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20392} [A type of overhead loophole used in fortifications since the middle ages]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Magazine,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20393} [The construction of gunpowder magazines]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Mantlet,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20397} [Musket proof coverings for embrasures]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Pah,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 2 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20430}[New Zealand Mori Hill Fort]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Palanques,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1860), Vol.2; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20431} [A note on Turkish entrenchments used during the 1600's and after]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Palisade,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 3 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.Item No.20433}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Sap,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 9 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20458} [Includes: Single sap, Flying sap, Double sap, and other notes]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Shutters, Embrasure,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20461}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Siege Operations in India,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 13 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20462} [Includes: Attack of forts and fortresses: Principles to regulate the nature of the attack. Appendix I. Notes on the siege of Mooltan, Appendix II. Extract from a note by Captain T.W.Hicks, Field Commissary of Ordnance, Bombay Division, April 8, 1849 (The Bombay Siege artillery platform. Appendix III. Siege tactical notes. Plus tables]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Siege Operations, Irregular,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20463} [An accelerated attack]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Siege and Engineer Equipment,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20464} [The manning and distribution of tools, materiels, to each wagon for a company of Royal engineers in the field]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Sod-work,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20465} [A revetment of grass sods ]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Stockade,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20474}
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Tambour,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20480} [Relates to the protection of gateways]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Tete de Pont,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 3 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20483} [A type of bridgehead fortification]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Trous de loup,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20484} [A wooden stake pit obstacle]
Royal Engineers, Corps of."Zig-Zag,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20492} [Zig zag trenches used in siege operations]
Straith, Major Hector."Amount of labour," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter I; 29 pages, 33 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20783} [Including: Facilities for a forward movement, Method of finding solid contents of parapet, Trench of more roomy dimensions, Rocky or marshy soils, Substituting a ditch for a trench, Further means of strengthening field works, An expeditions way of forming an obstacle, Works of a more important character, Some particulars respecting the slopes, Works on the slope of a hill, Remarks on profiling field works, Amount of excavation, Method of calculating the deblai of a work, Rule for calculating the number of fascines required, On the method of making gabions, On sap rollers and hurdles, Revetments for field works, Bridges of communication, On the various obstacles used, Palisades and fraises, Remarks on stockades, Blockhouses, Stockade revetments, Barrier gates, Remarks on abattis, Remarks on trous-de-loup, Remarks on chevaux-de-frize, Remarks on Fougasses]
Straith, Major Hector."Leading principles," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter II; 18 pages, 27 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20784}[Including: Redan, and redan with flanks, Lunettes and double redans, Tenaille heads and bastion heads, Square redoubts, Star forts, Bastion forts and lines of redans, Lines of tenailles, indented and bastion lines, Lines with intervals, Bridge heads]
Straith, Major Hector."Half-sunken and sunken batteries," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter III; 18 pages, 26 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20785}[Including: Construction and dimensions of batteries, Rule for dimensions of embrasures, mantlet, Countersloping embrasures, Tracing of an elevated battery, Construction of an elevated battery, Slopes given to the cheeks of embrasures, Gun platforms, Gun and Howitzer platforms, Mortar and Madras platforms, Field powder magazines]
Straith, Major Hector."Necessity for using thick earthen ramparts and parapets," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter IV; 22 pages, 15 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20786} [Including" Construction of Vauban’s, first system, Principles observed in tracing Vauban’s first system]
Straith, Major Hector."Uses of the various works in Vauban’s first system of fortification," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter V; 13 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20787}
Straith, Major Hector."On Relief and command, On ditches," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter VI.; 19 pages, 12 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20788} [Including: Their capacity, Wet and dry, On representing works in plans and sections, Means of communicating between the interior of the fortress, and the country, and between the different works]
Straith, Major Hector."On the Attack of Field Works," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter VIII.; 10 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20790} [Including: Assault by surprise, Attack of field works, Attack of fortified village]
Straith, Major Hector." Improvement on the bastion system," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter IX; 18 pages, 13 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20791} [Including: The modern system, The faussebraie, Double flank, Chemin-des-rondes, Retrenchments]
Straith, Major Hector."On counterguards," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter X; 19 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20792} [Including: Tenaillons and demi-tenaillions, Horn and crownworks, Advanced ditch, covered way and lunettes, Detached forts, Retrenched camps, Citadels]
Straith, Major Hector."Revetments," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XI; 14 pages, 12 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20793} [Including: Counter forts, Piling foundations, Concrete foundations, Revetments]
Straith, Major Hector."Bomb Proofs and Casements," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XIII; 7 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20795} [Including: Bomb proof buildings, Casemates, Casemated batteries, Blinded batteries]
Straith, Major Hector."The Attack," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XIV; 22 pages, 4 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20796} [Including: The Attack, Closing remarks]
Straith, Major Hector."Remarks on the bastion and other methods of tracing," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XV; 28 pages, 39 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20797} [Including: On the bastion systems of Castriotto; Errard, Marchi, DeVille; Pagan; Vauban; Coehorn; Dufour; Bousmard; and Chasseloup de Laubat. On the tenaille, or redan tracings of Montalembert and Carnot, On the polygonal, Prussian and German tracings, Fortifications at Coblentz; at Cologue and Lintz]
Straith, Major Hector."Directions for tracing a front of Vauban’s first system of fortification in elevation, on a principle proposed by Lieut.Cook, Professor of Fortification at Addiscombe," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XVI; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20798}
Straith, Major Hector."The System of fortification proposed by Lieut.Cook Professor of Fortification at Addiscombe," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Chapter XVII; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20799}
Straith, Major Hector."The mode of ascertaining the amount of excavation necessary to furnish the requisite quantity of earth to form the remblai of any given work," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix B; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20802}
Straith, Major Hector."Extract taken from Sir John Jone’s Sieges in Spain," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix C; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20803}
Straith, Major Hector."Defense of Matagorda," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix D; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20804}
Straith, Major Hector."Remarks on Vanban’s Masonry Revetments," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix E; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20805}
Straith, Major Hector."Rules for Revetments," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix F; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20806}
Straith, Major Hector."Remarks in “Choumara’s Memoires de Fortification," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix H; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20808} [For Existing Fortresses, For New Fortresses]
Straith, Major Hector."General Roigniat’s Retrenched Camp," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix I; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20809}
Straith, Major Hector."Professor Bordwine’s System," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix K; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20810} [Fortification Trace]
Straith, Major Hector."Mr.Fergusson’s System," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix L; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20811} [Fortification Trace]
Straith, Major Hector."Remarks on the Attack of some fortified Posts," Treatise of Fortification (7th Edition)(1858), Appendix N; 14 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20812}[Including: Memorandum of the Engineer Operations at the taking of Ghuznee. July, 1839 and other fortified places]
Toepfer, Captain in the Fourth Engineer Inspection. "Technics in the Russo-Japanese War," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.II, No.6 (April-June 1910); 24 pages Price 2.50 {Item No.6163} [From the Kriegstechnische Zeitschift. Parts II, III, and IV 1906. Translated by Capt.Frederick L. Knudsen, Eighth Infantry, January 19, 1909][Reports on line of communication engineering (railroads, roads, bridges), communications (telegraphs, carrier pigeons, etc.), ballon observation, seachlights, photography, camps, landmines and a especially good section on field fortifications.]
Wilby, Captain F.B., Corps of Engineers. "A Two-Company Field Work," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.22 (July-August 1913); 59 pages, 14+illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.6196} [The training construction of a strongpoint with extensive series on comments on it.][Includes: General situation, Special situation, Character of the work, General plan, Location and length if firing trenches, Location of support trenches, Profiles of firing trenches, Profiles of support trenches, Traverses, Observation stations, Dressing stations, Communications, Machine gun positions, Drainage, Latrines, Obstacles, Clearing, Miscellaneous, Estimate of time for construction, Conclusion. Discussion (by 15 officers, including many like Bond, and Spalding]
Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Coast Defense, including Submarine Mines," by Col. Henry L.Abbott, Corps of Engineer, U.S.Army. Columbian Exposition (1894), II. ; 16 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6102}
Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Coast Defense," by Major Sir G.S.Clarke, K.C.M.G. Columbian Exposition (1894), III. ; 14 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6103}
Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Intrenched Camps," by Lieut.A.M.D’Armit, Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army. Columbian Exposition (1894), VII. ; 31 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6107}
Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Fortification for Coast Defense, including Submarine Mines," by Major J.F.Lewis, Royal Engineers. Columbian Exposition (1894), IV. ; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6104}
Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Field Fortifications and Intrenched Camps," by Captain F.N.Maude, Royal Engineers. Columbian Exposition (1894), VIII. ; 51 pages Price 5.00 {Item No.6108}
Reports of the United States Commissioners. "Fortifications," Volume V. Report on the Munitions of War, Chapter VIII. " Paris Universal Exposition, 1867 ; 12 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5338} [Includes: French Section, British Section, Martello tower, Experimental granite casemate, Chalmers shield, Iron verus granite, Effects of shot on granite, Protection for stone works, Thorneycroft bars, Russian thick plate, 13-1/2 inch shield]
U.S. Navy, Bureau of Navigation, Office of Naval Intelligence."The Bombardment of the Fortifications at Alexandria,"War Series No.III., Part I. by Lt.-Commander Casper F.Goodrich, USN (1883); 110 pages, 84 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.20220} [From "Report of the British Naval and Military Operations in Egypt, 1882"] [Includes Sections I-VII of the report] [Details]
U.S.Navy, Bureau of Navigation, Office of Naval Intelligence."The Battle of Tel-El-Kebir and the Conclusion of the War,"War Series No.III., Part II. Section XIII. by Lt.-Commander Casper F.Goodrich, USN (1883); 31 pages, 15 illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.20234} [From "Report of the British Naval and Military Operations in Egypt, 1882"] [Includes: Details of Egyptian field fortifications and The battle, Seizure of Zagazig, Of Cairo, The withdrawal of the British troops]
War Department, Ordnance Office. "Wallace's Intrenching Tool," Ordnance Notes.---No.217 (Washington, 18 September 1882) by Major N.W.Wallace, 1st Battalion K.R.R.Corps. From the Journal of the Royal United Services Institution; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5217}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "Fortified Camps," A Reply to Major Parnell, R.E. by Captain G.S.Clarke, R.E.. Ordnance Notes.—No.273 (Washington, 21 March 1883). From Occasional Papers, Royal Engineers’ Institute; 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.5273}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "The Artillery Defense of a Fortress," by Lt. A.P.Codd, R.E.(Royal Engineers Institute) Ordnance Notes.—No.281 (Washington, March 30, 1883) ; 10 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5281}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "The Attack of Intrenchments by Field Artillery," by Major W.Kemmis, R.A.. Ordnance Notes.—No.246 (Washington, 13 February 1883) From the Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Insititution; 11 pages, 2 plates of illustrations Price 2.00 {Item No.5246}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "Fortress Warfare. An Abstract of Muller’s History of Fortress Warfare, " by Captain E.M.Lloyd, R.E.. Ordnance Notes.—No.226 (Washington, 10 October 1882); 23 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.5226}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "The Forts of To-Day," by Major E.M.Lloyd, R.E.. Ordnance Notes.—No.248 (Washington, 16 February 1883) From the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution; 15 pages, 1 plate of illustrations Price 2.00{Item No.5248}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "Notes on Hasty Defenses as Practiced in South Africa," by Major W.C.F.Moynbux. Ordnance Notes.—No.247 (Washington, 14 February 1883) From the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution; 7 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5247} [A study of Boer Wagon Laagers]
War Department, Ordnance Office. "The Training of Garrison Artillery for the Attack and Defense of Fortresses," by Col.H.A.Smith, R.A.. Ordnance Notes.—No.227 (Washington, 13 October 1882). (Gold Medal Prize Essay, 1882). From the Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution; 21 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.5227}
War Department, Ordnance Office. "Vauban and Modern Sieges," Ordnance Notes.—No.251 (Washington, 20 February 1883). From The Quarterly Review; 15 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.5251}

WWI Vintage (1914 to 1939)

American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.1: Trench Profiles," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.2 (18 April 1918); 6 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-16} [Includes: Necessity for Standard Profile, Types Adopted, Fundamental Dimensions, Nomemclature]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.2: Standard "A" Frames," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.3; 1 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-17}
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.3: Trench Drainage," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.12 (1 May 1918); 6 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-18} [Includes: General, In constructing trenches, Maintenance of drainage system, Flooring of trenches, Sumps, Pumps]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.4: The Organization of the Ground for the Defense," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.13 (24 August 1918); 33 pages, 6 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.1566-19} [Includes: Part I: General Principles: General characteristics of combat, Characteristics of the attack, Characteristics of the defense; Part II. The elements of a defensive position: Positions, Distribution of troops in a battle position, Lines, Characteristics of the various lines, Defensive areas, Combat groups, Strong points, Centers of resistance, Subsectors, Sectors, Defensive zones, Trenches; Part III. Procedure in organizing a position for defense: General selection and allotment of positions to be defended, General choice of position, Location of details of preliminary work, Fig.5 Regimental sub-sector showing distribution of troops and preliminary work in 1st battle position; Shelters, communications and general development of the position, Summary of procedure, Fig.6 Regimental sub-sector showing completed organization of 1st battle position; Time and labor to complete]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.5: Standard Entrance for Cave Shelters," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.14 (7 May 1918); 18 pages, 15 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-20} [Includes: Requirements of satisfactory entrances: Number, Protection, Ease of entrance and exit, Concealment, Exclusion of rain and trench water, Simplicity of construction; Standard Approaches to Entrances: Approaches from reverse slopes; Standard Inclines: Type 1. Standard sets normal to slope, Type 2: Standard sets vertical, Type 3: French sets normal to slope, Type 4: French set vertical (standard French types), Relative advantages and disadvantages for Type 1 and 2, Conditions under which Types 3 and 4 should be employed]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.6: Sectional Wooden Shelter," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.16 (20 May 1918); 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-21} [Includes: Use, Description, Weight, Plans and material required]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.7: Trench Traces," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.19 (6 June 1918); 5 pages, 8 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-22} [Includes: Necessity for standard traces, General requirements, Types adopted, Intersections]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.7-A: The Octagonal Trace of Trenches," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.42 (8 September 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-23}
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.8: Overhead Cover for Dugouts," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.20 (31 May 1918); 9 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-24} [Includes: Object, Factors affecting safety of overhead cover; Artillery fire to be resisited: Number and destructive power of German projectiles, Table 1: Usual types of German artillery and projectiles of maximum destructive effect, Projectiles against which shelter must be provided; Material of which the protective cover is composed: Classification, Undisturbed ground, Table 2: Thickness of virgin ground required in feet, Artificial substitutes, Table 3: Table of equivalent factors for calculating amount of cover required for protection against shell fire; Arrangement of successive layers: Importance, Component layers; Interior construction]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.10: Trench Construction," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.24 (25 June 1918); 15 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-26} [Includes: General, Planning: Preliminary reconnissance, Estimates, Requisitions for tools and working parties; Tracing: General, Dimensions, Tracing with tracing tape, Tracing by using stakes and stones, Tracing by extending men on the line; Execution: Issing tools, Guiding party to work, Organization, Method of conducting work, Distribution of men on the work, Form: Requistion for working party]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.11: Defense of Approach Trenches," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.26 (25 June 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-27}
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.12: Underground Water and Its Relation to Field Works," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.27 (27 June 1918); 6 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-28} [Includes: General, Saturation surface layer, Ground water, Water bearing horizons, Faults, Summary]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.13: Revetment," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.28 (3 July 1918); 8 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-29} [Includes: Retaining wall types, Superficial types, Reveting material]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.14: Standard Materials for Cave Shelter Construction," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.30 (18 July 1918); 13 pages, 20 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.1566-30} [Includes: American Standard Materials, Uses; French Standard Materials: List, Uses]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.15: Principles of Shelter Organization," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.31 (31 October 1918); 37 pages, 28+ illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.1566-31} [Includes: General, Light Shelters, Cut and Cover Shelters: Use, Types, Construction; Cave Shelters: General Principles, Types, Construction; Drainage; Camouflages; Camouflage; Gas Protection; Bomb Protection; Bunks]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.15-A: Bills of Material for Shelter Construction," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.47 (31 October 1918); 10 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-32} [Includes: Light Shelters; Cave Shelters: Entrances, Gallery, Chambers, Complete Shelters]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.16: Trenches Accessories," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.32 (18 September 1918); 11 pages, 16 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.1566-33} [Includes: Sentinels Posts, Sniper's Posts, Ammunition and Grenade Boxes, Signs: Names, Signboards, Location; Ladder and Steps: Sortie Ladders, Steps; Latrines: Location, Number, Types; Telephone Lines: In communication trenches, In special trenches]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.17: Emplacements for Automatic Weapons," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.33 (18 September 1918); 12 pages, 11 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.1566-34} [Includes: Machine Gun Emplacements: Standard dimensions for all emplacement, Shell hole emplacement, Emplacement with splinter proof cover, Reinforced concrete emplacement, Automatic Rifle Emplacement, Dimensions of Automatic Weapons]
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.18: Gas Protection for Dugouts," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.34 (22 August 1918); 5 pages, 6 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-35}
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.19: Wire Entanglement Drills," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.35 (4 October 1918); 6 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-36}
American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.20: Obstacles against tanks," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.38 (21 September 1918); 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1566-37} [Includes: Improved natural obstacles, Artificial obstacles]
American Expeditionary Force."General Construction No.1: Cement," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.9 (16 April 1918); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.1566-44} [Includes: Cements, Classes of cement to be furnished, Packing and marking of commerical French cement, Physical properties and precautions as to use]
AEF Ordnance Bulletin of August 24, 1918."Antitank Defenses," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 8 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6316}[Includes: Tank ditch, German Anti-tank mine, Anti-Tank Defense, Organization of Anti-Tank defense, Conduct of infantry fighting in conjunction with Tanks, German Anti-Tank artillery, Notice: On mine against tanks: Nature of Device: Fuse, Box, Method of use, Removing the mine, Tactical use]
Bond, Col.P.S.and Lt.R.D.Leisk. 107th Engineer, National Army. "Deep Gallery Shelters. A lecture," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918) ; 10 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6255}
Bond, Capt.Aubrey H., 5th Engineers."Reinforced Concrete Shelters of German Hindenburg Line," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 13 pages, 15 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6311} [Includes: Front line type, Support line type, Reverse line type, Turret type, Method of construction, Tactical Dispositions]
Beard, Capt.C., Engineers, U.S.Army."The Future of Permanent Fortifications," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 18 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6289} [Translated from French]
Cassidy, Lt.Col.J.Edward, Engineers, U.S.A.."Improved type of German Pill Box," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 6 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6300}
Kingman, Captain John J.. "Field Trenches Construction by the First Brigade, First Division, at Plattsburg, N,Y, September 1915," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.VIII, No.37 (January-February 1916) ; 2 pages, plus map Price .50 {Item No.6228}
Lang, Bt.Maj.W.H.,16th Cavalry, British Army, India."Some Notes on the Turkish Trenches at Sannayait," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 6 pages, 1 map Price 1.00 {Item No.6269} [Reprinted from Journal of the United Service Institution of India, October 1917]
Lecture by a British Officer skilled in landscape gardening. "Trenches and Camouflage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.47 (September-October 1917) ; 65 pages, 44 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.6246} [Includes: General principles, Concealment, An extensive field of vision and fire, A maximum amount of protection from rifle fire and the various types of shell fire, Shrapnel, Efficient drainage, In the event of retirement the trench should be of such a kind that it is of little value to the enemy, Bombing traps, Fire trenches, Inspection, communication, support trenches, etc., Obstacles, Wire obstacles, Concealment of obstacles, Low barbed wire entanglements, Coast defences, To summarize, Breastworks, Organization of working parties, Questions asked after lectures] [This is a excellent article]
Livermore, Col.W.H., U.S.Army. "Mining Operations, Especially for Infantry. Mainly translated from a lecture to cadets at Saint-Maixent, France," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918); 17 pages, 19 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6260} [Includes: Introduction, Construction of a shaft, Construction of a gallery, Construction of a branch with sheeted frame, Construction of a gallery or of a branch by a Russian sap, Mine Warfare]
Livermore, Translated by Col.W.R."Tunnels and Galleries," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6268}[From La France Militarire (February 14-15, 1918)]
Livermore, Col.W.R., U.S.Army. "The German Shelters on the Somme," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.46 (July-August 1917); 8 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6240} [Translated from the L'Illustration, January 13, 1917]
Livermore, Col.W.R., US Army, ret.(I, II, III) and Maj.Henry Swift, Chaplain, US Army, ret. (IV, V)."Old and New Opinions about the Value of Permanent and Fortified Positions," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 24 pages, 1 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6277} [From Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Artillerie and Genie (June 1917)] [Translated from German] [Part one of four]
Livermore, Col. W.R., US Army, ret. (I, II, III) and Maj.Henry Swift, Chaplain, US Army, ret. (IV, V)."Old and New Opinions about the Value of Permanent and Fortified Positions," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 29 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6281} [From Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Artillerie and Genie (June 1917)] [Translated from German] [Part two of four]
Livermore, Col. W.R., US Army, ret. (I, II, III) and Maj.Henry Swift, Chaplain, US Army, ret. (IV, V)."Old and New Opinions about the Value of Permanent and Fortified Positions," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 31 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6285} [From Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Artillerie and Genie (June 1917)] [Translated from german] [Part three of four]
Livermore, Col. W.R., US Army, ret.. (I, II, III) and Maj.Henry Swift, Chaplain, US Army, ret. (IV, V). "Old and New Opinions about the Value of Permanent and Fortified Positions," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 18 pages Price 3.00 {Item No. 6288} [From Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Artillerie and Genie (June 1917)] [Translated from german] [Part four of four]
Peterson, Lt.Col.V.L., Corps of Engineers. As given the eighth engineers (mounted). "Sandbox instruction in Fortification, Reconnaissance and Minor Tactics," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 21 pages, 22 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6275} [Includes: Field Fortifications instruction, Barbed-wire entanglements, Saps, Mines shafts and galleries, Machine Gun emplacements, Deep shelters, Craters, Observation posts, battery emplacements and dressing stations, Final review of all the work, Lectures given on the work, Battalion supporting point, Sand box for sketching instruction, Use of the sand box for instruction in minor tactics, Patrols, Advance guards, Outposts, Results accomplished.]
Pillsbury, Col. G.B., Engineers, U.S.A.."Technical Engineering Details of the Hinderburg Line in the Sector of Attack of the II Army Corps," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 25 pages, 18 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6294} [Includes: Introduction, Trenches, Wire Entanglements, Shelters, Machine gun emplacements, Observation posts, Miscellaneous features, Re-enforced concrete, The organization of the Canal tunnel, Lessons from the attack]
Rubel, A.C., Report by, Topographic Officer."The Barrier Type of Tank Defenses. In the St.Mihiel and Grande Montagne Sectors by the 304th Engineers under Col.James F.Barber," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 11 pages, 13 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6308}
Sacket, Capt. C.T., Engineers, U.S.A.."Fortifications as Dependent upon Advances in Human Knowledge," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 23 pages, 21 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6282} [A history of fortification]
Swift, Major Henry, Chaplain, U.S.Army. "Use of Corrugated Iron for Construction of Shelters," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918); 10 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6256} [Introduction, Flat Sheets of 2.80 m, Flat Sheets of 1.80 m, Shelter material of curved corrugated iron: Type of large corrugations, Setting-up of shelter. Shelter material of curved corrugated iron: Type of small corrugations, Resisting power of shelters, Capacity of shelters. Light Shelters of corrugated iron 1916, Mode of employment]
Trounce, Capt.H.D., Engineer reserve corps, U.S.A., formerly Lieutenant Royal Engineers, British Army."Mine Rescue Work," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 16 pages, 4 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6278} [Includes: Mine rescue work, The Fleuss or photo apparatus, The gibbs apparatus, Methods of ventilation, How gas poisoning in mines is produced, Poisoning by Carbon Monoxide, The action of Carbon Monoxide (CO), After effects of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning, Prevention of gas poisoning and accidents in mines (General instructions): After a mine explosion, Precautions to be taken where gas is known to be present in the galleries..., Treatment, To restore breathing, Treatment after natural breathing has been restored, To induce circulation and warmth, Warning]
Wilby, Major F.B., Corps of Engineers. "The Influence of the European War Upon the Art of Field Fortifications," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.46 (July-August 1917); 65 pages, 49 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.6242} [Includes: Introduction, General considerations, Firing trenches, Communications, Overhead cover, Obstacles, Machine guns, Artillery, Observation, Miscellaneous requirements, Conclusions]
U.S.Army Infantry School. "The Six-Hour Plan," The Infantry School Mailing List Vol.VII, Chapter VIII. (December 1933-1934); 20 pages, 9 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.10008} [A yardstick for building field fortifications for defensive positions]
War Department."Field Fortification,"War Dept.Doc.No.605 Field Service Pocket Book (1917), Chapter IVa; 34 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.22040} [Includes: Field Fortification: General principles, Location, Organization of a position, Firing trenches: Location, Profiles. Traverses, Head cover, Overhead cover, Revetments, Steps, Drainage, Obstacles, Concealment, Dummy trenches, Observation, Illumination of the battlefield, Lines of information, Depots, Machine guns, Trench weapons, Command posts, First aid stations, Kitchens, Latrines, Lavatories, Shower baths, Water supply, Signboards, Maintenance, Gas protection, Bomb and grenade protection, Trip and alarm wires, Villages and buildings, Thickness of protective material, Intrenching tools, Table of time, men and tools, A working party table, Method of executing field fortifications]

WWII Vintage (1939 to 1949)

U.S.Army Infantry School. "It takes time to dig in (An Infantry School Study)," Infantry School Mailing List, Vol. XX, Chapter 7. (July 1940); 18 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.10168} [Includes: Introduction, Illustrative problem, Wire entanglements, Assignment of work, Fields of fire, Foxholes and connecting trench, Emplacements for automatic rifles, Emplacements for light machine guns, Emplacements for 60-mm mortars, Distribution of tools, The battalion reserve, Heavy weapons company, Summary][The new organization has turned the ‘6-hour plan’ into 12 hours]
U.S.Army Infantry School. "The Infantry Digs in," Infantry School Mailing List, Vol. XXIV, Chapter 9. (July 1942); 46 pages, 44 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.10217}
U.S.Army Infantry School. "Infantry Entrenchments and Weapon Emplacements," Infantry School Mailing List, Vol. XXVI, Chapter 3. (July 1943); 34 pages, 25 illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.10234}
U.S.Army Infantry School. "Attack of a Fortified Position," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.XXXIII, No.1 (July 1948); 21 pages, 10 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.10320} [Includes: Introduction, Analysis of a fortified position, Reconnaissance prior to the attack, Organization, Employment of weapons, The attack, Conclusion]
U.S.Army Infantry School. "Weapons Emplacements," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.XXXIV, No.1 (January 1949); 15 pages, 11 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.10341} [Includes: Introduction, Machine gun emplacements, 81-mm Mortar emplacement, 57-mm Rifle emplacement, 75-mm Rifle emplacement, Rocket launcher emplacement, Observation posts]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.4, Section II. (December 1942) ; 5 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.5581} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Road Blocks, Antitank, Electric]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Attacks on Concrete Fortifications," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.6, Section III. (February 1943); 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.5616} [On German WWII forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "How New Zealand Troops Penetrate Wire Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.6, Section IV. (February 1943); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5623} [On British WWII forces][Includes: Triple Concertina Fence, Double Apron Fence, Two Double Apron Fences, Close Together, Combined Wire Obstacles, Coment]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Infantry Fieldworks," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.7, Section III. (March 1943); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5631}[On German WWII Forces]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Engineer Assault Tactics," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.12, Section IV. (August 1943); 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.5692} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Attacks on Pillboxes: Composition of Detachment, Assault Tactics. Attacks on Trenches]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on How Japanese Attack Pillboxes," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.12, Section II. (August 1943); 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.5697} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Organization, and Attack Duties, Weapons and Equipment: Assault Han, Assisting Fire-Power Detachment, Mopping-up Han. Methods of Attack: Assisting Fire-Power Detachment, Assault Han, Mopping-Up Han, Machine-Gun or Engineer Detachment, Night Attacks, Assistance by Other Troops. Destruction by Bombardment]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Defense Techniques," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.12, Section III. (August 1943); 3 pages Price.50 {Item No.5698} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Positions, Weapons, Tactics in Combat]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "How British Deal With Road Craters, Obstacles, " Intelligence Bulletin Vol.I, No.12, Section I. (August 1943); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.5700} [On British WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Craters: Dry Craters, Wet Craters. Other Road Obstacles]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Some Basic Principles of Coastal Defense," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.1, Section II. (September 1943); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.5710} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Organization of Strong Points, Organization of Defense Areas, Use of Artillery, Conduct of Battle]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Barbed Wire Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.1, Section III. (September 1943); 7 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5711} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: General, Specific Types: Knife Rests, Apron Fences, Vertical Fences, Concertina Fences, Trip Fences, Alarm Wires, Electrified Wire, Combined Fences. Standard Technique: Obstacle in Depth, Wire-netting Fences, Trip-Wire Obstacles]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Types of Concrete Antitank Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.1, Section IV. (September 1943); 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5712} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Walls: General, Continuous Walls, V-Shaped Walls, Walls with Gaps. Other Concrete Obstacles: Dragon’ Teeth, Plain Blocks. Rails Embedded in Concrete]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Improvement of Defensive Positions," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.2, Section III. (October 1943); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5720} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Forward Boundry of the Organized Defense Area: Requirements, How to Fulfill the Requirements. Depth of the Defensive Position: How Depth of the Position is Achieved, How Defense of the Position is Insured. Maps or Overlays]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Principles of Defense Against Airborne Troops," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.3, Section III. (November 1943); 6 pages Price .50 {Item No.5732} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, German Estimate of Our Tactics, German Principles of Defense: Obstacles, Protection of Defenses, Observation Posts, Communicating an Alarm, Preparation of Mobile Reserves, Defense Tactics, Opening of Fire, Conclusions]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Weaknesses of Artillery Defensive Positions," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.3, Section IV. (November 1943); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5733} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, How Faults were to be Corrected: Precautions Against Damage by Fire, Further Construction of Firing Positions, Track Discipline, Alternative Positions, “Last Covering Height”, Conclusion]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Some Defensive Techniques Used by the Japanese," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.3, Section IV. (November 1943); 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.5739} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: As Seen by Observers, According to Documents]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Defense Against Airborne Forces," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.4, Section I. (December 1943); 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.5745} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, General, Preparation: General, To Defend Airfields. Combat Tactics: General, Against Parachute Troops, Against Air-Landing Troops]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Japanese Defense Notes," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.4, Section IV. (December 1943); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5748} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Defense Plans for “X” Area: General, Tactical Points, Supplies, Communication. Coastal Defenses: Reconnaissance, Tactics. Comments on Pantelleria Defense, Antiaircraft Observation]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Japanese Jungle Defense. Introduction," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.6, Part One, Section I. (February 1944); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.5772} [On Japanese WWII Forces]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Japanese Jungle Defense. Tactics," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.6, Part One, Section II. (February 1944); 22 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.5773} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: General: Organization of Terrain, Fire Plans, Use of Snipers. Infantry: Advance Outposts, Company Attack, Ambushes, Use of Fire, Machine-Gun Positions. Against Tanks: General, Use of “Tank Fighters”. Against Landing Operations: According to Observers, According to Japanese Sources. Counterattack, Against Parachute Troops, Against Aircraft.]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Japanese Jungle Defense. Positions," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.6, Part One, Section III. (February 1944); 23 pages, 13 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.5774} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: General, Bunkers, Pillboxes: Buna Area, New Georgia, Betio, Burma. Dugouts and Shelters: According to Observers, According to Enemy Sources. Blockhouses, Weapon Emplacements, Foxholes, and Trenches. Antiaircraft Positions: General, In the Solomon Islands]
War Department. Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Japanese Jungle Defense. Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.6, Part One, Section IV. (February 1944); 11 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5775} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Wire Entanglements: Net Type, Double-apron Type, Passageways. Movable Barriers: Barbed Type, Cheval-de-frise, Ribard. Other Types of Barriers: Abatis, Cylindercal Wire Net, Folding Screen, Wire Snares. Antitank Obstacles: Ditches and Steps, Land Mines, To Separate Infantry From Tanks, Other Types]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Defense of Betio Island," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.7, Section I. (March 1944); 35 pages, 18 illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.5783} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: General, Obstacles: Reinforced Concrete Pyramids (tetrahedrons), Wire, Antiboat Barricade, Perimeter Barricade, Antitank Ditches. Mines, Grenade Dischargers and Grenades, Rifle and Light Machine-Gun Emplacements: General, Covered Type, Open Type, Concrete-Pillbox Type, Shields for Riflemen. Heavy Machine-Gun Emplacements: Built into Beach Barricade, Outside of Beach Barricade, 13-mm Machine-Gun Emplacements: General, Single Mount, Twin Mount. Field Guns and Emplacements, Dual-Purpose Gun Emplacements: For 75-mm Model 88 AA Guns, For 127-mm Twin mount Guns. Coast-Defense Guns: 80-mm Guns, 140-mm Guns, 8-inch Shielded Guns. Tanks, Command Posts, Shelters]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "A Prepared Defensive Position in Italy," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.7, Section II. (March 1944); 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.5789} [On German WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "A German Company in the Defense," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.7, Section III. (March 1944); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.5790}[On German WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "More German Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.7, Section VI. (March 1944); 5 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5793} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Wire around Pillboxes in Woods, Antitank Ditches]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Developments in Japanese Defense," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.8, Section II. (April 1944); 10 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5801} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Organization of Positions, Defense of Beaches: General, On Kiska, On Bougainville. Defense Against Tanks]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Some Jap Methods of Overcoming Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.8, Section VI. (April 1944); 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.5805} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Wire Obstacles, Operating in Secrecy, Operating under Fire. Abatis, Antitank Obstacles]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Japanese Positions in the Defense," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.9, Section I. (May 1944); 11 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5807} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, As Seen in the Marshall Islands, As Seen in Burma, According to Enemy Sources: General, Two Squad Positions, A Platoon Position, Two Company Positions]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "German Field Defenses Observed in Italy," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.9, Section I. (May 1944); 7 pages, 6 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5817}[On German WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Japanese Antiaircraft and Coastal Defenses," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.10, Section II. (June 1944); 12 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5837}[On Japanese WWII Forces] [Includes: General: As to Location, As to Construction, As to Patterns, As to Camouflage. Examples of Positions: Six-gun Heavy Battery (Attu), Combination of Batteries (Burma), Combination of Batteries (Kolobangara), Light Battery in Mounds, Heavy AA-Coastal Defense Battery, Three-gun AA-Coastal Defense Battery]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Two AA/AT Positions," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.10, Section III. (June 1944); 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5838} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: General, Machine-Cannon Battery Position, Antiaircraft Battery Position]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "German Mobile Steel Pillbox," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.11, Section VIII. (July 1944); 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5853} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Table of Characteristics: Dimensions, Armor. Descriptive Notes, How the Russians Combat It]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Notes on Japanese Defensive Positions," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.11, Section II. (July 1944); 5 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5857} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Introduction, Position for a Platoon, Position for a Company, Position on Kwajalein]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Some Fortifications Observed in Italy," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.II, No.12 (August 1944); 13 pages, 12 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.5873}[On German WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Japanese Cave Defenses on Biak Island," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.3 (November 1944); 10 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5905} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Beach Caves, Galleries, Sumps, Variations, Fortification of the Mokmer Pocket]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Home-Made Offshore Obstacles," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.3 (November 1944); 6 pages, 11 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5906}[On Japanese WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "More Notes on Fortifications," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.4 (December 1944); 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5918} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: A Defense Position in Burma, New Protective Measures]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Pillbox Warfare in the Siegfried Line," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.5 (January 1945); 11 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5934} [On German WWII Forces][Includes: Movement, Cooperation with Mechanized Support, Assault Teams, Use of Smoke, Infantry and Direct Supporting Fire, Possible Surrender, Digging them Out, Other Methods, White-phosphorus Grenades, Precaution, Making Pillboxes Useless, Readiness to Meet Counterattacks, When the Counterattack Comes, A Rifle Company vs. Three Pillboxes][This Article in on U.S.Army Tactics against Pillboxes]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "The Japs Holes In," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.12 (August 1945); 18 pages, 10 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6024} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Cave Defense Trends, Advantages and Disadvantages, Recommended Improvements, Caves Encountered, Attu, Wakde Islands, Biak, Marianas, Palaus, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Burma Pillboxes," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.12 (August 1945); 2 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6031}[On Japanese WWII Forces]
War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Demolitions and Obstacles. Jap Technique is Spotty," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.12 (August 1945); 10 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6032} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Japanese Plans, Bridges and Railroads, Airfields, Town and Area Demolitions, Obstacles, Demolition Clocks, Improvised Charges]
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Japanese Doctrine on Obstacles," Tactical and Technical Trends Vol.I., No.10 (October 1942); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.12655}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Japanese Defensive Tactics in the Solomons," Tactical and Technical Trends Vol.I., No.10 (October 1942); 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.12656}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Breakthrough Against German Defenses," Tactical and Technical Trends Vol.I., No.10 (October 1942); 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.12658}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."German Tactics in the Final Phases at Kharkov," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.12, No.17 (19 November 1942); 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.12708}[German hasty Combined arms strongpoints in Russia]
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."German Construction and Development of a Strongpoint," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.14, No.15 (17 December 1942); 2 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.12764}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."German Airdromes in Western Europe," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.15, No.2 (31 December 1942); 6 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.12786}[Shape and size, Dispersal of aircraft, Protection of aircraft, Camouflage and deception, Refueling, Night approach systems, Protection of airdromes]
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."German Attacks on Permanent Defenses," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.16, No.11 (14 January 1943); 1 page Price .50 {Item No.12818}
War Department."Field Engineering Data,"FM 101-10 Staff Officers' Field Manual. Organization, Technical and Logistical Data (10 October 1943), Chapter 7; 12 pages, illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22099} [Including: Purpose, Roads and Bridges, Bridge and ferrying equipment: Distribution of floating equipment, Characteristics of ferrying equipment, Characteristics of floating bridge equipment, Fixed bridges, Water supply: Troop requirements, Capacity of water supply equipment, Equipment issued to troop units, Explosives, Field Fortifications: Priority of work, Camouflaging, Works, Obstacles, Road blocks and antimechanized measures: Road blocks, Continuous artificial obstacles, Antitank mine fields]
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Concealment of German Trenches," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.19, No.12 (25 February 1943); 1 page Price .50 {Item No.12900}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Finnish Tank Traps Over Frozen Rivers," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.21, No.5 (25 March 1943); 3 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.12940}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Japanese Field Works at Buna," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.21, No.8 (25 March 1943); 1 page Price .50 {Item No.12943}
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Some German Views on Fortifications," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.21(25 March 1943); 12 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.12953} [A. Elements of Modern Fortification Design, B. The Failure of Fortifications in the 1940 Campaign]
War Department. Military Intelligence Service."German Winter Field Fortifications, and Use of Ice-Concrete," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.22, No.11 (8 April 1943); 7 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.12965}
War Department."Field Fortifications, General," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 4, Section I; 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.1557-5} [Includes: Frontages held by units on defensive (table), Man hours required to clear 100 square yards (table), Required thickness of overhead cover for protection against penetration plus explosion (table), Thickness required for protection against single shots by direct fire weapons (table), Thickness of materials required to protect against penetration of fragments from projectiles and bombs exploding at a distance of 50 feet (table)]
War Department."Field Fortifications, Emplacements," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 4, Section II; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.1557-6} [Includes: Excavation and camouflage data for weapons emplacements (table)]
War Department."Field Fortifications, Entrenchments," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 4. Section III; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.1557-7} [Includes: Time and labor for constructing entrenchments (table), Sandbag revetments]
War Department."Field Fortifications, Shelters," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 4, Section IV; 11 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-8} [Includes: Typical cover for cut and cover shelter, Minimum thickness of burster layer in inches (table), Relative thickness of materials required to provide same overhead protection (table), Cut and cover shelter constructed of dimensional lumber (plan), Capacities in unventilated shelters, Surface shelter constructed of circular section of corrugated metal (plan), Standard air lock (plan), Cut and cover shelter constructed of dimensional lumber (bill of material), Circular surface corrugated metal shelter (bill of material), Standard air lock (bill of material)]
War Department."Obstacles, Antitank mine fields," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 5, Section I; 5 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.1557-10} [Includes: Hasty mine field, Deliberate mine field, Vehicle capacity for antitank mines (table), Rates of construction of Obstacles: Four row post obstacle (table), 100 feet of antitank ditch (table), Enemy tank characteristics (table)]
War Department."Obstacles, Barbed Wire," FM 5-35 Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 5, Section II; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.1557-11} [Includes: Estimated barded wire requirements, Wire entanglement materials (table), Materiel and labor required for 300 yards of wire entanglement (table)]

Korean War Vintage (1950 to 1960)

Blum, Captain Charles K., Infantry."Rifle Platoon in Attack of a Fortified Position", Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.39, No.1 (July 1951); 11 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10477}
Canby, Lt.Steven L.."A New Face For A Foxhole," Infantry, Vol.51, No.2 (March-April 1961); 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.11199} [Parapet less foxholes]
Garman, Capt.Frederick E.."Fighting Fortifications," Infantry, Vol.51, No.1 (January-February 1961); 3 page, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.11169} [Infantry company level]
Hampton, Capt.Wade."A Portable Barrier," Infantry, Vol.51, No.1 (January-February 1961); 1 page, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.11178} [A portable light road barrier gate]
Phillips, Captain Alfred."Bunker Busting," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.42, No.2 (April 1953); 7 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10577} [A description of bunker assault technique]
Poser, Norman S.."Spades Are Trumps," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.45, No.4 (October 1955) [Historical note on the value of the entrenching tool]
Tracy, Captain George."Meet Sergeant Mulrooney," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.42, No.1 (January 1953); 7 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10573} [Lessons on the proper tactical use of barbed wire]
Wilson, Captain Arthur W., Infantry."Heavy Mortar Digs In", Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.40, No.1 (January 1952); 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.10503}

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