The Resource 'Conceal, Create, Confuse' : Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War, Martin Davies, (electronic resource)
'Conceal, Create, Confuse' : Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War, Martin Davies, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- This is the story of the British Army's endeavours during the Great War to deceive the enemy and trick him into weakening his defences and redeploying his reserves. In this year-by-year account, Martin Davies shows how Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig actively encouraged their Army commanders to employ trickery so that all attacks should come as a 'complete surprise' to the enemy. The methods of concealment of real military artefacts and the creation of dummy ones were ingenious enough but the real art lay in the development of geographically dispersed deception plans which disguised the real time and place of attack and forced the enemy to defend areas threatened by fake operations. Some of these plans, such as disguising mules as tanks and creating dummy airfields bordered on the farcical but were often amazingly effective. The driving force behind the deception plans was GHQ and the Army commanders, further dispelling the myth of 'Lions led by Donkeys'. Evidence shows that the British Army employed deception to advantage in all their theatres of operation
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780750979085
- Label
- 'Conceal, Create, Confuse' : Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War
- Title
- 'Conceal, Create, Confuse'
- Title remainder
- Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin Davies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is the story of the British Army's endeavours during the Great War to deceive the enemy and trick him into weakening his defences and redeploying his reserves. In this year-by-year account, Martin Davies shows how Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig actively encouraged their Army commanders to employ trickery so that all attacks should come as a 'complete surprise' to the enemy. The methods of concealment of real military artefacts and the creation of dummy ones were ingenious enough but the real art lay in the development of geographically dispersed deception plans which disguised the real time and place of attack and forced the enemy to defend areas threatened by fake operations. Some of these plans, such as disguising mules as tanks and creating dummy airfields bordered on the farcical but were often amazingly effective. The driving force behind the deception plans was GHQ and the Army commanders, further dispelling the myth of 'Lions led by Donkeys'. Evidence shows that the British Army employed deception to advantage in all their theatres of operation
- Cataloging source
- CtWfDGI
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davies, Martin
- Dewey number
-
- 940.4/8641
- 940.4/8641
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- U167.5.D37
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- World War, 1914-1918
- Deception (Military science)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- 'Conceal, Create, Confuse' : Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War, Martin Davies, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Control code
- frd00011433
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access limited to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780750979085
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780750979085
- (Sirsi) b1465306
- System details
- System requirements: Adobe Digital editions
- Label
- 'Conceal, Create, Confuse' : Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War, Martin Davies, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Control code
- frd00011433
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access limited to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780750979085
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780750979085
- (Sirsi) b1465306
- System details
- System requirements: Adobe Digital editions
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