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  • British Redcoat 1740–93

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • Redcoat Officer

    1740–1815

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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    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 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • British Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792–1815

    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Foot Guards

    by Ian Fletcher ...
    Series Book 52 - Elite
    The Guards fought in every major British campaign on the continent during the Napoleonic Wars.They carved their place in history under commanders such as Sir John Moore and Wellington from Corunna and Talavera during the Peninsula War to their legendary defence of the Chateau of Hougoumont throughout the battle of Waterloo.Ian Fletcher examines the uniforms and insignia of the Guards as worn both ... Read more

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  • The Boer War

    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War.Christopher Wilkinson-Latham explores the composition and appearance of both sides, and summarises the campaigns fought. Alongside concise text, this guide is richly illustrated, and uniforms are shown in full detail. ... Read more

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  • Cumberland’s Culloden Army 1745–46

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising.The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans and crossed into England, getting as far south as Derby before withdrawing into Scotland. Far from ... Read more

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  • The Great War in England in 1897

    Imagine the guns of France and Russia thundering across the Home Counties: William Le Queux's The Great War in England in 1897 is the sensational future-war fantasy that gripped a nervous nation.First serialised in 1894, this bestselling shocker imagines a near-future Britain overrun by a hostile coalition, its cities besieged and its countryside laid to waste before a desperate fightback begins. ... Read more

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