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Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007374052
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.
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781599860
What was a British soldiers life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment, through the key stages of his path through the military system, including combat, all the way to his eventual discharge. His fascinating account shows how varied the recruits of the day were, from urban dwellers and weavers to plowboys and laborers, and they came from all regions of the British Isles including Ireland and Scotland. Some of them may have justified the Duke of Wellingtons famous description of them as the scum of the earth. Yet these common soldiers were capable of extraordinary feats on campaign and on the battlefield that eventually turned the course of the war against Napoleon.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007275496
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War.
Author : Hugh Bicheno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 000715626X
Accompanying a four-part BBC TV series, this is the story of a vicious struggle between brothers, friends and families which forged a new nation. The book tells the history of the passionate, violent and bloody events of America in the 1770s, taking a controversial and revisionist view.
Author : Ian McCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 1896941494
An informative history of early Highland regiments of the British army in North America. It collects essays on Highland weapons, uniforms, equipment, bagpipes and specialist soldiers, with a biographical register of various officers that served in the three regiments, including regimental muster rolls and returns.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007225699
A magisterial new history of the British soldier - a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'. From battlefield to barrack-room, this book is stuffed to the brim with anecdotes and stories of soldiers from the army of Charles II, through Empire and two World Wars to modern times. The British soldier forms a core component of British history. In this scholarly but gossipy book, Richard Holmes presents a rich social history of the man (and now more frequently woman) who have been at the heart of his writing for decades. Technological, political and social changes have all made their mark on the development of warfare, but have the attitudes of the soldier shifted as much we might think? For Holmes, the soldier is part of a unique tribe - and the qualities of loyalty and heroism have continued to grow amongst these men. And while today the army constitutes the smallest proportion of the population since the first decade of its existence (regular soldiers make up just 0.087%), the social organisation of the men has hardly changed; the major combat arms, infantry, cavalry and artillery, have retained much of the forms that men who fought at Blenheim, Waterloo and the Somme would readily grasp. Regiments remain an enduring feature of the army and Lieutenant Colonels have lost nothing of their importance in military hierarchy; the death of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe in Afghanistan in 2009 shows just how high the risks are that these men continue to face. Filled to the brim with stories from all over the world and spanning across history, this magisterial book conveys how soldiers from as far back as the seventeenth century and soldiers today are united by their common experiences. Richard Holmes died suddenly, soon after completing this book. It is his last word on the British soldier - about which he knew and wrote so much.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007349883
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
Author : Kevin Linch,Matthew Lord
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276028
An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier's place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0233005773
Endorsed by the IWM, the book includes rare memorabilia from their archives, as well as painstakingly researched documents from the archives of D-Day museums in Normandy.
Author : G. Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137323835
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Author : Cathal J. Nolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313359200
Dominated by the ambitions of France's King Louis XIV, Europe in the years 1650-1715 witnessed a series of wars from which emerged many of the theories, practices, and technologies that characterize modern warfare. During this period, European armies evolved modern ideas of army organization and military leadership, as well as modern views of campaign strategy and battle tactics. As European soldiers and colonists moved into Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, the practice or influence of their military techniques and ideas also affected wars fought in those places. In this volume's 1000 plus entries, an award-winning author of reference works on international relations and war describes and defines important events, technologies, and individuals from this seminal period of global military history.
Author : Dan Snow
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007286218
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain's empire in North America. Military history at its best.
Author : Charles Kirke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472588517
How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe? This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years. The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the author's research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.
Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472505224
The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.