The Austro-Hungarian Artillery. Ortner

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Over the period from 1867 to 1918 the Austro-Hungarian artillery experienced major changes both in technical and organisational terms. Proceeding from the muzzle-loader of the Battery of the Dead at the Battle of Sadowa in 1866, the artillery was continuously modernised and evolved from the M 1875, M 1880 and M 1899 systems to barrel recoil artillery and finally the massed guns of the First World War. A total of 637 pages and more than 1,200 photographs, design sketches and illustrations, sometimes published for the first time, demonstrate not only the appearance and design principles of the more than a hundred artillery models introduced over this period, but also numerous prototypes and contemporary foreign artillery systems. Tables and organisational charts describe the structures and organisation of the artillery at different times and plans and descriptions explain firing methods and artillery tactics in detail. Colour illustrations of the types of Austrian ammunition employed in the First World War round off the picture. The author of the book, Dr. M. Christian Ortner, is the Director of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna. 640 pages with approx. 1,200 photographs and illustrations, bound in linen with a protective cover.

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