Stormtrooper

by Ian Drury

Far ahead of their time, the techniques of these elite infantrymen resembled those used by the 2nd Para at Goose Green in 1982. This book provides a concise guide to an extraordinary group of fighters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841760382
• ISBN13: 9781841760384
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction

If you're interested in simply learning more about a subject which is often glossed over in histories of the First World War, or worse, misrepesented, then this book would serve well. Drury addresses the weapons used by the Stormtroops, how they were organized and what their role was within the German armies in the West. Well-written, with great photographs and artistic renderings.

Good overview of Stormtroopers in 64 pages

This book does a very good job at introducing the reader to Stormtroopers in only 64 pages. In that short length it discusses their historical development (both institutionally and in terms of their place in German offensive military strategy), the "men" in the organization (i.e., typical background, etc.), tactics used and weapons used along with the reasons they could not bring German victory. For 64 pages (an hour or so of reading), a good introduction to the Stormtroopers of WWI.

Short course on late WW1 tactics

This is an excellent, tightly written history of German infantry shock troops that were developed at the end of World War 1.