Missed signals on the Western Front : how the slow adoption of wireless restricted British strategy and operations in World War I /

This work points primarily to the British Army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced by the crude, unreliable wireless sets with which the army began the war. It also demonstrates how improved wireless communications between infantry,...

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Main Author: Bullock, Mike, 1939-
Other Authors: Lyons, Laurence A., 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C : McFarland & Company, [2010]
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