Author: Hugh Wodehouse Pearse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt
Author: Hugh Wodehouse Pearse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt., Subsequently 1st & 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment: 1917-1919
Author: Hugh Wodehouse Pearse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt
Author: Hugh Wodehouse Pearse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army
Author: Arthur S. White
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178150539X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178150539X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Blood Brothers
Author: Jeff Hopkins-Weise
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand
Albuera Eyewitness
Author: Guy Dempsey
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399066447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399066447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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