
The Artillery Enthusiast's Library: 19 Essential Reads
Gunnery, Siegecraft, Strategy, and the Cultural History of Modern WarfareBy Frederic Richard Kilner, Frederick Morse Cutler, Reginald Grant, John Victor Macartney-Filgate, C. A. Rose, Harold E. Cloke, Jeffery E. Jeffery, William Elmer Bachman, Cecil J. C. Street, Austin Thomas Anderson, James A. Frye, Richard M. Russell, Caroline Elizabeth Whitcomb, Charles Rendell Mabey, Edward Alexander Moore, George C. Sumner, Theodore Reichardt, George Manville Fenn, Kenneth WardLength100h 39m
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The Artillery Enthusiast's Library: 19 Essential Reads assembles a broad documentary field around artillery: its mechanisms, tactical uses, organization, and cultural fascination. Across technical exposition, historical narrative, practical analysis, and reflective military writing, the volume charts the changing language through which guns, gunnery, and battlefield power have been understood. Its significance lies less in a single canonical argument than in the productive juxtaposition of specialized perspectives, allowing accounts of matériel and method to meet wider questions of strategy, discipline, and technological change. The contributors—Frederic Richard Kilner, Frederick Morse Cutler, Reginald Grant, John Victor Macartney-Filgate, C. A. Rose, Harold E. Cloke, Jeffery E. Jeffery, William Elmer Bachman, Cecil J. C. Street, Austin Thomas Anderson, James A. Frye, Richard M. Russell, Caroline Elizabeth Whitcomb, Charles Rendell Mabey, Edward Alexander Moore, George C. Sumner, Theodore Reichardt, George Manville Fenn, and Kenneth Ward—collectively represent the varied voices through which military knowledge is recorded and circulated. Their work situates artillery within traditions of technical instruction, military history, and popular writing about warfare. This anthology is recommended to students of military history, technology, and material culture, as well as to informed general readers. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare styles and assumptions within one focused volume, deepening appreciation of artillery's historical reach and encouraging dialogue between practical expertise and historical interpretation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length100 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1Aerial Warfare Archives: 27 Must-Have Books
2Battery D First Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War (pt. 1)
3Battery D First Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War (pt. 2)
4Battery D First Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War (pt. 3)
5The First regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery in the Spanish-American war of 1898
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6PREFACE
7INTRODUCTORY
8THE COAST-DEFENCE PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS
9MARCHING ORDERS
10OFF FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
11THE REGIMENT AT FORT WARREN
12A PERIOD OF SUSPENSE
13FROM "M.V.M." TO "U.S.V."
14PERSONNEL OF THE REGIMENT
15THE SEASON OF RUMORS
16ASSIGNMENT TO STATIONS
17FORT PICKERING AND THE "NORTH SHORE" DEFENSES
18FORT RODMAN AND ITS GARRISON
19THE THIRD BATTALION AT FORT WARREN
20FINAL DAYS IN THE SERVICE
21AN HONORABLE REGIMENTAL RECORD
22ROSTER OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
23CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR
24The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace
25The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace
26THE OLD FIRST
27CHAPTER III
28CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER VIII
30CHAPTER IX
31APPENDIX I
32The History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery, in the War, 1914-1918
33FOREWORD.
34INTRODUCTION.
35CHAPTER I. EARLY DAYS
36CHAPTER II. FIRST EXPERIENCES OF WAR IN THE LA BASSÉE SECTOR. (DECEMBER 1915—JULY 1916).
37CHAPTER III. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. (JULY 14th—SEPTEMBER 6th 1916).
38CHAPTER IV. DAINVILLE, HEBUTERNE AND THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE. (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1916.)
39CHAPTER V. WINTER ON THE SOMME 1916.
40CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF ARRAS AND VIMY RIDGE. (APRIL-JUNE 1917.)
41CHAPTER VII. THE HINDENBURG LINE AND THE OPERATIONS ON THE COAST. (JUNE-AUGUST 1917).
42CHAPTER VIII. THE AUTUMN BATTLES OF YPRES AND PASSCHENDAELE. (SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER 1917.)
43CHAPTER IX. WINTER IN THE SALIENT. (DECEMBER 1917—MARCH 1918.)
44CHAPTER X. Part I. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS. (APRIL-MAY 1918.)
45CHAPTER X. Part II. HOLDING THE ENEMY IN THE NORTH. (MAY-AUGUST 1918.)
46CHAPTER XI. THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE, SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER 1918. FINAL ADVANCE TO VICTORY ON THE 3RD ARMY FRONT.
47CHAPTER XII. FINALE.
48APPENDIX I.
49APPENDIX II.
50APPENDIX III.