Warfare
Battalion
A military unit of up to about 1,000 soldiers, commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement §4 The Battle of the Frontiers and the Great Retreat§5 The First Battle of the Marne§8 The Aisne, the Race to the Sea and First Ypres
- Chapter IV Deadlock §2 The Western Front: From Neuve Chapelle to Loos§3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack§4 Gallipoli: The Campaign That Failed§5 Italy Enters the War: The Isonzo and the Mountains§8 The Armenian Genocide
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §1 The Plan for 1916: Chantilly§2 Verdun I: Falkenhayn's Mill
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §6 Russia's Summer: Kerensky's Offensive, the July Days and Kornilov§7 Caporetto: The Italian Disaster§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back§9 Peace Moves, the October Revolution and the Armistice in the East
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §4 Georgette, the Marne, and Why It Failed§5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
- Chapter IX In the Trenches Overview§2 A Day in the Line: Stand-To, Rum and Relief§4 The Other Enemies: Rats, Lice, Mud and Cold§5 Going Over the Top§6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation§8 Letters, Leave, Faith and Laughter§9 Who the Soldiers Were
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §1 Rifles and Machine Guns§6 The Learning Curve: From Lines to Combined Arms§7 Messengers, Wires and Railways: Communications and Supply§9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts Overview§3 Women at War
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §6 The Empires' Soldiers