Military Archaeology
eBook - ePub

Military Archaeology

How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Military Archaeology

How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History

About this book

A valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around the world into what can only best be described as a hugely popular pastime, and in some instances a multi-million-pound business. With technologies available today, even the student on the most modest of budgets can become an archaeologist (if only in the layman's term). Yet despite it's popularity in unearthing answers to the questions of our turbulent past, there are surprisingly few texts available on what is arguably a fascinating and historically important subject. The objective herein is to present an analysis of various battles fought around the world from medieval times to the present, and the archaeology recovered from investigations carried out by professionally sanctioned groups and hobbyists. The context here includes general battlefield recovered artifacts, military aviation crash sites, Second World War pill boxes, air raid shelters, POW Camps and other structures. There is also emphasis on Britain's ally in both world wars, the United States of America, examining the artifacts, wreckology, structures and dumping grounds left behind by the American military forces at the end of the Second World War both in the UK and Europe. Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History is a valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Eyes on the Ground
  8. 2. Getting Started
  9. 3. England’s Bloody History
  10. 4. England’s Battles with Scotland
  11. 5. Waterloo
  12. 6. The Anglo-Zulu War 1879
  13. 7. The Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
  14. 8. The First World War 1914–1918
  15. 9. The Second World War 1939–1945
  16. 10. France & Belgium
  17. 11. Poland, Ukraine, Russia & Germany
  18. 12. Second World War Structures, Airfields & Dumping Grounds
  19. 13. Second World War Aircraft Recovery
  20. 14. Tale of a Tailplane
  21. 15. Ghosts of the 1982 Falklands War
  22. 16. The 1991 Gulf War & 2003 Invasion of Iraq
  23. 17. The Trade in Archaeological Militaria
  24. Afterword
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. About the Authors
  27. Plates