Strategy Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, fishing strategies Date: 20th century

Charlemagnes Chess set from the 14th century. Museum at Ron
Charlemagnes Chess set from the 14th century. Stamps of Montpellier. Museum at Roncesvalles. Navarre. Spain

The Epic of Arnhem, WW2
The Epic of Arnhem, where the First Airborne Division saw action during the Second World War. Showing how the newcomers at Arnhem were welcomed as they landed by parachute. Date: 1944

The Men who fought at Arnhem, WW2
The men who fought at Arnhem in a struggle against the odds during the Second World War. A double page spread of seven photographs, picturing Major-General Urquhart

Mareth Line, Tunisia, by G. H. Davis
A large-scale contour map of the complicated Mareth Line in Tunisia, North Africa, where General Montgomery stated that the enemys fate would be decided

Robert McNamara explain Vietnam War strategy, 1965
A front page of The Illustrated London News, dated 13th February 1965, showing Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara(1916-2009) outlining the U.S strategy for the Vietnam War. Date: 1965

Crimean War, the Turkish reconnaissance
Crimean War -- the Turkish reconnaissance, with General Pelissier, Omar Pasha and Lord Raglan. 1855

Women playing chess in a tournament. Date: circa 1960s

China. Men playing draughts in a tavern. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Battle Plan / Waterloo
A battle plan for Waterloo. Red= English and Belgians Green= Prussians Blue= French Date: 1815

Cartoon, Still Life, WW1
Cartoon, Still Life, showing a foaming tankard of beer, with some saloon-bar strategists in the background. Date: 1916

Artillery at Tobruk
North Africa : Rommels artillery bombards Tobruk, Libya, recognised as a key element in the strategy of the North African campaign Date: 1941

Two cats and a bird on a New Year card
Strategy -- two cats in the snow, eating food from a plate on a New Year card. A bird gets ready to grab some of their food. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Strategy, WW1
Cartoon, Strategy. An old man lectures a French soldier about military strategy. After the Battle of the Marne, he promises to explain the Hundred Years War! Date: 1916

Cartoon, The interrupted conference, WW1
Cartoon, The interrupted conference. A group of people look at a map, and a man says what Napoleon would have done. However, the conference has to be suspended

The Advance into Holland, WW2
The Advance into Holland during the Second World War -- the Second Armys dash towards Nijmegen and Arnhem, and the crossing of the Belgian and Dutch water lines

Provision of a battery to besiege (first half of the 18th c.). Engraving. SPAIN. ARAGON. Zaragoza. Academia General Militar (General Military Academy)

Illustration that recreates the hunting of large mammals (mammoths, woolly rhinos and elephants) using traps during the Upper Paleolithic. Painting

The value of pigeon post, WW2
The value of pigeon post as an accessory to wireless in war: testing a private fanciers carrier pigeons. Date: 1941

Cricket asking for guard
A batsman is comes on to play when hes getting ready in hes crease he asks for guard. Date: circa 19th century

British soldiers playing chess, WW1
A sketch drawn from life by a British officer at the front showing two soldiers passing the time by playing chess using various forms of cartridges for the different pieces. Date: 1915

Aerial observation photo, Western Front, France, WW1
An aerial observation photo of an unidentified area on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: 16 May 1916

British officers observing, Western Front, WW1
British officers in a trench or shell hole, doing observation work on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Map of Japanese invasion receding by G. H. Davis
A pictorial map of the Pacific area, showing how the wave of Japanese invasion receded as a result of the Allied strategy during the Second World War

U-boat warfare 1939-1945 by G. H. Davis
U-boat warfare 1939-1945: a survey of changing German submarines and tactics in a never-ceasing battle during the Second World War

Bizerta and environs by G. H. Davis
Bizerta (Bizerte, Tunisia, North Africa), its environs and main topographical features. An air-view map of Bizerta, key point of air attacks on Sardinia and Sicily during the Second World War

Lancasters use low-flying tactics by G. H. Davis
Lancasters use low-flying tactics in the Le Creusot (Schneider Works, 17 October) and Milan raids (military targets, 24 October) during the Second World War: new problems set for the enemy

Madagascar strategic island by G. H. Davis
Madagascar, the strategic island to Allied communications in the East, occupied by British forces, forestalls a Japanese plot during the Second World War

Defence of British aerodromes by G. H. Davis
The defence of British aerodromes: methods of defence above and under the ground during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Maps of Sicilian Straits and Mediterranean by G. H. Davis
A map of the Sicilian Straits: the vital channel in the Mediterranean War. Also a map of the general Mediterranean area. Date: 1941

Defeat of the Graf Spee by G. H. Davis
The fight with the Admiral Graf Spee: factors in a classic example of naval battle tactics pictorially explained. Elements that played a part in the defeat of the ship by three British cruisers

Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped, WW1
Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped. Showing Lord Kitchener and General Pau, defenders of France at the start of the First World War, sitting at a desk with books and maps

Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck!, WW1
Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck! A comment on the defeat of General Alexander von Kluck in the Battle of the Marne, turning the German invaders away from Paris in the early days of the First

Battleship v. submarine by G. H. Davis
Battleship versus submarine: Sir Percy Scotts views on the position of the capital ship illustrated in a series of special Sphere diagrams. Top: the fleet bottled up in a harbour by submarines

Aerial warfare in summer skies by G. H. Davis
Beware of the Hun in the sun: aerial warfare in summer skies, flight formations and tactics dependent on the suns position. Left: hide and seek in the clouds, with the sun used for cover

British night fighters by G. H. Davis
Methods of Britains night fighters during the Second World War: the element of surprise. Clear, dark nights are ideal for hunting enemy raiders

Aeroplanes and warship construction by G. H. Davis
Aircraft and sea warfare: the influence of aeroplanes on warship construction and naval strategy during the Second World War

New German air raid tactics by G. H. Davis
New German air raid tactics during the Second World War, forced upon them by RAF victories: huge fighter escorts for a few bombers. Date: 1940

Gliding training by G. H. Davis
How gliding training helps the war pilot during the Second World War: utilising clouds. 1940

Valley of the Somme near Clery, France, WW1
French soldiers in the valley of the Somme, near Clery, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Tactics in a torpedo action by G. H. Davis
What happens inside a British submarine when she sights enermy vessels and attacks with torpedoes. 1943

Russo-Japanese War - 3rd Army Division at Battle of Shaho
Japanese Commander and his staff of the Third Army at the Battle of Shaho (Saka no kaisen) - the second large-scale land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile front centred at

Spain (1713). War of the Spanish Succession. Siege of Barcelona. French map with the position of the Louis XIVs troops

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). Battle of Bailen (19th July). SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Spain. Third Carlist War. Situation of the battle of Somorrostro (March 27, 1874) against the Carlist army. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

RAF - intensive bombing of Germany
Back Them Up!, The RAFs intensive bombing of Germanys war industries continues Date: 1943

Map, Battle of Fleurus
Map of the Battle of Fleurus - it was won by the French Army, with the first military use of a reconnaissance balloon. The hydrogen balloon L Entreprenant was used to pass messages to the ground

Silhouette of a chess game
Charming silhouette scene depicting two men playing a game of chess. Date: c.1830

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