Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare The story of what happened

The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of France—is told in full for the first time in Thunder and Flames

soldiers lived inside the ground

earning a Military Cross for what historian Charles Bean called 'the most dramatic and effective act of individual audacity in the history of the AIF'

She was sentenced to the firing squad and only survived due to the Iron Cross honour received as a result of her earlier medical service

Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare The story of what happenedDescription By Marc Romanych and Greg Heuer Paperback World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. More railway artillery pieces were used during this war than in any other conflict, even though at the start of the war none of the armies had railway guns and the very idea of railway artillery was comparatively new. The impetus to build and field railway mounted guns came from the stalemate of trench warfare. The first railway guns fielded by the