A Brief History Of The British Army

Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472136195
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the British Army written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the battle for Empire - and a cast pf remarkable characters - Marlborough, Wellington and Montgomery among them. Yet the British, relying on their navy, have always neglected their army; from the time of Alfred the Great to the reign of Charles II wars were fought with hired forces disbanded as soon as conflict ended. Even after the stuggles with Louis XIV impelled the formation of a reulgar army, impecunious governments neglected the armed forces except in times of national emergency. In this wide-ranging account, Major Haswell sketches the medieval background before concentrating on the three hundred years of the regular army, leading up to its role in our own time. He presents an informed and probing picture of the organization of the army, the development of weaponry and strategy - and the everyday life of the British soldier through the centuries. John Lewis-Stempel has brought Major Haswell's classic work right up to date by expanding the section on the dissolution of empire to include a full account of Northern Ireland and the Falklands War. He has added a new chapter to cover the Gulf War, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq; also the increasing role of special forces and the amalgamation of regiments.

Author : David G. Chandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192853333
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Army written by David G. Chandler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval antecedents to the present day. Commanders, campaigns, battles, organization, and weaponry are all covered in detail within the wider context of the social, economic, and political environment in which armies exist and fight, making this the definitive one-volume history of the British army for specialists and non-specialists alike. Book jacket.

Author : Ira D. Gruber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469622156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution written by Ira D. Gruber and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution

Author : Sir John Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the British Army: To the close of the seven years' war written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book A History of the British Army: pt. 1-2. 1789-1801 written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. W. Fortescue
Publisher : MACMILLAN AND CO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book A History of the British Army, Vol.1 (of 2) written by J. W. Fortescue and published by MACMILLAN AND CO. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the British Army is commonly supposed to begin with the year 1661, and from the day, the 14th of February, whereon King Charles the Second took over Monk's Regiment of Foot from the Commonwealth's service to his own, and named it the Coldstream Guards. The assumption is unfortunately more convenient than accurate. The British standing army dates not from 1661 but from 1645, not from Monk's regiment but from the famous New Model, which was established by Act of the Long Parliament and maintained, in substance, until the Restoration. The continuity of the Coldstream regiment's existence was practically unbroken by the ceremony of Saint Valentine's day, and this famous corps therefore forms the link that binds the New Model to the Army of Queen Victoria. But we are not therefore justified in opening the history of the army with the birth of the New Model. The very name indicates the existence of an earlier model, and throws us back to the outbreak of the Civil War. There then confronts us the difficulty of conceiving how an organised body of trained fighting men could have been formed without the superintendence of experienced officers. We are forced to ask whence came those officers, and where did they learn their profession. The answer leads us to the Thirty Years' War and the long struggle for Dutch Independence, to the English and Scots, numbered by tens, nay, hundreds of thousands, who fought under Gustavus Adolphus and Maurice of Nassau. Two noble regiments still abide with us as representatives of these two schools, a standing record of our army's 'prentice years. But though we go back two generations before the Civil War to find the foundation of the New Model Army, it is impossible to pause there. In the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign we are brought face to face with an important period in our military history, with a break in old traditions, an unwilling conformity with foreign standards, in a word, with the renascence in England of the art of war. For there were memories to which the English clung with pathetic tenacity, not in Elizabeth's day only but even to the midst of the Civil War, the memories of King Harry the Fifth, of the Black Prince, of Edward the Third, and of the unconquerable infantry that had won the day at Agincourt, Poitiers, and Creçy. The passion of English sentiment over the change is mirrored to us for all time in the pages of Shakespeare; for no nation loves military reform so little as our own, and we shrink from the thought that if military glory is not to pass from a possession into a legend, it must be eternally renewed with strange weapons and by unfamiliar methods. This was the trouble which afflicted England under the Tudors, and she comforted herself with the immortal prejudice that is still her mainstay in all times of doubt, "I tell thee herald, I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen." The origin of the new departures in warfare must therefore be briefly traced through the Spaniards, the Landsknechts, and the Swiss, and the old English practice must be followed to its source. Creçy gives us no resting-place, for Edward the Third's also was a time of military reform; the next steps are to the Battle of Falkirk, the Statute of Winchester, and the Assize of Arms; and still the English traditions recede before us, till at last at the Conquest we can seize a great English principle which forced itself upon the conquering Normans, and ultimately upon all Europe. To be continue in this ebook...

Author : John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337461973
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the British Army written by John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Akam
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ISBN 13 : 9781922310279
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Changing of the Guard written by Simon Akam and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the British military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers. Composed of assiduous documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies who accompanied them, and the family members who loved and -- on occasion -- lost them, it is a strikingly rich, nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national institutions in a time of great stress. Award-winning journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the army when he was 18, returned a decade later to see how the institution had changed. His book examines the relevance of the armed forces today -- their social, economic, political, and cultural role. This is as much a book about Britain, and about the politics of failure, as it is about the military.