In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British A
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Winston Churchill described the opening campaign of World War I as ‘a drama never surpassed’. The titanic clash of Europ
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Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown do
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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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In this first general book on the Byzantine army, the author traces the army's impact on the Byzantine state and so
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Between 1869 and 1874, Edward Cardwell, Gladstone's Secretary for War, undertook major reforms to modernise the Bri
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This essay is an outgrowth of a study of Fenianism in North America undertaken some years ago and is an attempt to compi
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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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Battle Exhaustion introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army'
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The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons
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