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  • Redcoat Officer

    1740–1815

    av Stuart Reid ...
    Serie Bok 42 - Warrior
    The commissioned officer ranks in the British Army from 1740-1815 were almost entirely composed of the affluent and educated - the sons of the landed gentry, the wealthy, and other professional people. This title looks at the enlistment, training, daily life and combat experiences of the typical British officer in the crucial periods of the North American conflicts, the American Revolution, and ... Les mer

    155,61 kr

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  • Rifles

    Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters

    av Mark Urban ...
    As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end ... Les mer

    99,00 kr

  • Meeting the Enemy

    The Human Face of the Great War

    A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents ... Les mer

    116,59 kr

  • Redcoat

    The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.Delving into the history of the period – charting events including Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul and the Sikh wars – celebrated military historian Richard Holmes ... Les mer

    135,15 kr

  • The Making Of The British Army

    Edgehill, 1642: Surveyingthe disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army.From the 'New Model Army' of Cromwell's distant vision, former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people and ... Les mer

    192,76 kr

  • Days to Remember

    The British Empire in the Great War

    The First World War was, for Britain, as much about Imperial conflict, as it was about fighting on the Western front.Hundreds of millions of colonial subjects were forced into the war alongside Britain, and made a huge difference to the strength of the British army.In this fascinating study, Henry Newbolt and John Buchan take a general overview of the First World War, from its causes to the ... Les mer

    12,73 kr

  • The Man Who Never Was

    The Remarkable Story of Operation Mincemeat

    av Ewen Montagu ...
    Now the subject of a major new film starring Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu in Operation Mincemeat.In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of Spain. With it was a briefcase, in which were papers detailing an imminent Allied invasion of Greece.As the British had anticipated, the supposedly ... Les mer

    83,88 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • British Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792–1815

    Serie Bok 164 - Elite
    The British Army that faced Napoleon in the Peninsula was small by continental standards, but it consistently out-fought larger French armies, never losing a major open-field action.Its cavalry and artillery were standard; but its infantry achieved unique results, as their tactics were brought to a peak of professional perfection by Wellington. Using contemporary instruction manuals, first-hand ... Les mer

    154,39 kr

  • World War One

    Frontline News

    Throughout World War One, journalists risked their lives to bring news from the frontlines. Although America did not enter the war until April 1917, their newspapers had been full of news about the war since the summer of 1914. This is the story of the war using articles and interviews that were featured in regional newspapers from throughout the United States.In chronological order, the book ... Les mer

    28,49 kr

  • British Redcoat 1740–93

    av Stuart Reid ...
    Serie Bok 19 - Warrior
    During this period, the British army earned itself a formidable reputation as a fighting force. However, due to its role as a police force at home, and demonisation by American propaganda, the army was viewed as little removed from a penal institution run by aristocratic dilettantes. This view, still held by many today, is challenged by Stuart Reid, who paints a picture of an increasingly ... Les mer

    144,29 kr

  • Under the Devil's Eye

    The British Military Experience in Macedonia, 1915–18

    "A fantastic overview of one of Britain's untold stories from the Great War"—the Salonika Campaign that pitted Allied forces against the Bulgarians (Burton Mail).The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and Allied troops were tied up in the strategically ... Les mer

    53,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Redcoats Against Napoleon

    The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly researched account, tells the story of one such hitherto ignored group of fighting men, the 30th ... Les mer

    63,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus