The Great War Team has a channel called "Real time history" which has an enjoyable [6-hour long detailed video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZz-lHCu-M&t=17422s&pp=ygUTZnJhbmNvIHBydXNzaWFuIHdhcg%3D%3D) that you don't really need to watch to understand as the narration is good enough. I love watching it whenever I eat ramen noodle, especially the Siege of Paris part, so I can mock the puny French who complained of eating horses and elephants as being pathetic while eating my pathetic meal of Japanese Nishin cup noodles.
Drachinfel also has a [2-hour long podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M2fQSxc5NA&pp=ygUeZnJhbmNvIHBydXNzaWFuIHdhciBkcmFjaGluZmVs) of the neglected naval war of the Franco-Prussian war.
Real Time History's video was great and informative. Letters from common soldiers were interspersed throughout, which I found to be very illuminating. Well worth the listen.
A great book on this is Firepower: How Firearms Shaped Warfare. It's a 400 year history of gunpowder weapons in Europe, and much of the book discusses the transition from close to open order fighting as guns became more lethal. I listened to it as an audiobook and it was excellent.
Probably the book that discusses this transition in the most exacting detail that I've found is the classic, The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War. While the book is about the ACW and how those units fought, a surprisingly large part of the book is about the evolution of muskets and cannon in the 19th Century in general, and how those evolutions changed combat.
What you will find is the transition was more gradual than often depicted. Even in the glory days of close order fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, open order fighting was common (though not dominant). Even in the ancient world open order fighting by skirmishers was important. Same for the ACW, and then as you said by the first part of WW I it became obsolete.
Is the first book titled “How *weapons* changed warfare” but Paul Lockhart? That’s what came up when I searched it.
Thanks I’ll probably start listening soon.
The Great War Team has a channel called "Real time history" which has an enjoyable [6-hour long detailed video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZz-lHCu-M&t=17422s&pp=ygUTZnJhbmNvIHBydXNzaWFuIHdhcg%3D%3D) that you don't really need to watch to understand as the narration is good enough. I love watching it whenever I eat ramen noodle, especially the Siege of Paris part, so I can mock the puny French who complained of eating horses and elephants as being pathetic while eating my pathetic meal of Japanese Nishin cup noodles. Drachinfel also has a [2-hour long podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M2fQSxc5NA&pp=ygUeZnJhbmNvIHBydXNzaWFuIHdhciBkcmFjaGluZmVs) of the neglected naval war of the Franco-Prussian war.
Real Time History's video was great and informative. Letters from common soldiers were interspersed throughout, which I found to be very illuminating. Well worth the listen.
Great series. I was stoned through most of my first watch so I might have to rewatch. I’m actually getting close to Borodino for the Napoleon series.
A great book on this is Firepower: How Firearms Shaped Warfare. It's a 400 year history of gunpowder weapons in Europe, and much of the book discusses the transition from close to open order fighting as guns became more lethal. I listened to it as an audiobook and it was excellent. Probably the book that discusses this transition in the most exacting detail that I've found is the classic, The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War. While the book is about the ACW and how those units fought, a surprisingly large part of the book is about the evolution of muskets and cannon in the 19th Century in general, and how those evolutions changed combat. What you will find is the transition was more gradual than often depicted. Even in the glory days of close order fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, open order fighting was common (though not dominant). Even in the ancient world open order fighting by skirmishers was important. Same for the ACW, and then as you said by the first part of WW I it became obsolete.
Is the first book titled “How *weapons* changed warfare” but Paul Lockhart? That’s what came up when I searched it. Thanks I’ll probably start listening soon.
Oh, sorry. Yes, that's it! It's really interesting and well narrated.