The Victorians at War
(Sprache: Englisch)
The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars wherever British interests demanded it. This book looks at the men and their leaders from a...
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The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars wherever British interests demanded it. This book looks at the men and their leaders from a variety of angles, using particular incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought.
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Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: Reputations; 1 An English Confederacy; 2 Cleansing the East with Steel; 3 The Hand on the Throttle; 4 The Devil's Pass; 5 The Race for the Peerage; 6 Paths of Duty; 7 Doing a Billy Hicks; 8 The Excitement with Railway Carriages; 9 War, Truth and History; Part Two: Generals and Politicians. 10 Command in South Africa; 11 Islands in the Sun; 12 Cavagnari's Coup de Main; 13 Chelmsford's Major-Generals; 14 Stanhope's Storehouses; 15 One and a Half Battalions; 16 The Improbable Probability; Part Three: Ways of War; 17 The First Modern War?; 18 War, Technology and Change; 19 'Troopin'; 20 A Frenchman's Horse; 21 A Question of Totality; 22 No End of a Lesson; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Ian F. W. Beckett
Ian Beckett, a leading military historian, is the author of The Great War, 1914-1918 and editor of The Oxford History of the British Army. he is Horner Professor of Military Theory at the Marine Corps Research Center, Quantico, Virginia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian F. W. Beckett
- 2006, 272 Seiten, Maße: 17,1 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HAMBLEDON PR
- ISBN-10: 185285510X
- ISBN-13: 9781852855109
Sprache:
Englisch
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