Part One: Geology and military history • Geological constraints on the siting of fortifications: examples from medieval Britain • Geological constraints on battlefield tactics: examples in Britain from the Middle Ages to the Civil Wars • Part Two: Early geologists and armed forces • The military service of G. B. Greenough, founder president of the Geological Society • Geologists and the American Civil War • Part Three: Battlefield geology in world war • Comparison of British and German applications of geology in world war • Development of military geology in the German Wehrmacht 1939-45 • Development and role of military geology teams in the German army 1941-45 • Part Four: Military use of terrain • Geology and warfare on the British sector of the Western Front 1914-18 • Geology and the fortress of Gibraltar • Geological influences on the siting of military airfields in the United Kingdom • Part Five: Recent military geologist roles • From dowsing to hydrogeology in the Royal Engineers 1939-70 • Operational roles for military geologists • Part Six: Future military geologist roles • Geoenvironmental security – the challenge for tomorrow’s geologists • Part Seven: Field guides to world war battlefields in northern France • A field guide to the geology of the British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18 • A field guide to British military applications of geology in Normandy during 1944 • Index. Contributors: M. R. Bennett, University of Greenwich, UK. R. N. E. Blake, Nottingham Trent University, UK. F. M. Cocks, University of Greenwich, UK. P. Doyle, University of Greenwich, UK. T. J. Halsall, The University of Reading, UK. H. Hausler, University of Vienna, Austria. F. Moseley, University of Birmingham, UK. C. Paul Nathanail, University of Nottingham, UK. C. Pareyn, University of Caen, France. W. E. Pittman, University of West Alabama, USA. E. P. F. Rose, University of London, UK. M. S. Rosenbaum, Nottingham Trent University, UK. D. Willig, Deutsche Bundeswehr, II (GE/US) Korps, Germany.