Between 1869 and 1874, Edward Cardwell, Gladstone's Secretary for War, undertook major reforms to modernise the Bri
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The period 1902-1914 was one of great change for the British army. As a result of a series of investigations and governm
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This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian B
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Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge - how could the British army that had been
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McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary i
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