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Fire Power: British Army Weapons and Theories, 1904-1945

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This book is about the British army's effort to maintain and upgrade their weapon system from prior to World War I to the end of World War II. The authors tries to traced the cause and effects of development of modern weapon systems within the British army and how its affected its performances during these years. There seem to be a strong leaning toward artillery as one of its main subject matters. The book also showed how these new weapon systems altered British concepts of war, campaign, battle and tactics as the British army went from a "horse and foot" army to a modern mechanized army. I thought the book was well organized, researched and written.

However, having said that, I don't think this is a book for a casual reader. The pacing is bit dry and reading material seem to be geared for die-hard military history readers. I am not sure that the price offered by Amazon can be considered to be very reasonable either. I brought my copy ten years ago used for ten bucks. Its an in-depth book but not worth $300!!!