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With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.
This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American...
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by Arthur F. H. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Originally published under the pseudonym “Platoon Commander” these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F. H. Mills after his service in the British Expeditionary Force...
by Major Andrew J. Risio
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Impressed with the tactical lessons of the Boer War, the British Army reformed its doctrine and training from 1899 to 1914, deploying a combat ready force, the “Old Contemptibles” of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1914. Because of these changes, the BEF played a crucial role in Belgium...
by Ashley Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of...
Blue-Water Empire
The British in the Mediterranean since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger.
Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining....
Myths That Shaped Our History
From Magna Carta to the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in the world. The British are no exception and in this book Simon Webb explores some of the most well-known episodes from British history; stories which tell...
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower.
"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire*."* Winston Churchill's famous statement...
by Joseph Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle...
The Persistence of Empire
British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal...
A Long Long War
Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969–1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
The author of Bloody Belfast delivers “a vivid and unforgettable record” of the Northern Irish conflict that captures the “true horrors of war” (Best of British).
There are stories from some of the most seminal moments during the troubles in Northern Ireland—the Crossmaglen firefights,...
by Caroline Hoefferle
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties reconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide...
A History of the British Isles
Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.
A...
Islanded
Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram...