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28 produkter
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Av Trevor Royle
Inbunden, 2000
605 kr
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Crimea
The Great Crimean War 1854-1856
Av Trevor Royle
Häftad, 2000
358 kr
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The Crimean War is one of the most compelling subjects in British history. Everyone knows about the Charge of the Light Brigade and men like Raglan and Cardigan, have become household names. The story of Florence Nightingale, 'the Lady with the Lamp', and the heroic reporting of William Russell, …
Civil War
The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
Av Trevor Royle
Häftad, 2005
197 kr
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One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The …
Culloden
Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Av Trevor Royle
Häftad, 2017
173 kr
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The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was …
Dictionary of Military Quotations
Av Trevor Royle
Inbunden, 2021
1837 kr
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This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the atomic bomb, nearly 3,500 quotations distil the experiences of generations of soldiers, depicting …
Dictionary of Military Quotations
Av Trevor Royle
Häftad, 2022
505 kr
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This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the atomic bomb, nearly 3,500 quotations distil the experiences of generations of soldiers, depicting …
Time of Tyrants
Scotland and the Second World War
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
139 kr
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Trevor Royle examines Scotland''s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country''s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training …
Dictionary of Military Quotations
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2021
576 kr
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This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the atomic bomb, nearly 3,500 quotations distil the experiences of generations of soldiers, depicting …
Dictionary of Military Quotations
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2021
589 kr
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This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the atomic bomb, nearly 3,500 quotations distil the experiences of generations of soldiers, depicting …
Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain
Av Trevor Royle
Inbunden, 2008
449 kr
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Culloden
Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn''t just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was …
Orde Wingate
A Man of Genius, 1903–1944
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2021
130 kr
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Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ‘man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny’. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944. Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns of …
Royal Scots
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Royal Scots are Scotland's oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is based largely on the recollections of several generations of Royal Scots - men like Private McBane, who carried his three-year-old son into battle at …
Fighting Mac
The Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's …
Queen's Own Highlanders
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
165 kr
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Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of Scotland's oldest Highland regiments. Two great Highland families - Cameron of Lochdarroch and Mackenzie of …
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is one of the best-known regiments in the British Army. In a previous incarnation as the 93rd Highlanders, its soldiers were famed for being the 'thin red line' that repulsed the Russian heavy cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. When the …
Cameronians
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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In May 1968, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at the same spot in Douglas in Lanarkshire at which it had been raised in 1689. And yet, although the regiment is no more, its place in history is unassailable. The …
Gordon Highlanders
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an aristocratic landowner, the Duke of Gordon, whose wife played a major role in attracting recruits by riding …
King's Own Scottish Borderers
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. It is also unusual in that it lost its Scottish status between 1782 and 1887 when …
Royal Highland Fusiliers
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: The Royal Scots Fusiliers, founded in 1678 by Charles Erskine, fifth Earl of Mar; and The Highland Light Infantry, or …
Black Watch
A Concise History
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands.Instantly recognisable due to the famous red hackle cap badge and the traditional dark blue and …
Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2012
170 kr
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The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and …
We'll Support You Evermore
The Impertinent Saga of Scottish Fitba'
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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'It has to start somewhere for everyone, this daft, wild, extraordinary notion that happiness is a Scottish lap of honour and that the greatest, most hysterical happiness would be a Scottish lap of honour on a World Cup final day, England having just retired to the dressing-rooms, not just beaten, …
War Report
The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands
Av Trevor Royle
E-bok, 2012
170 kr
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Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war correspondent's view of war …
In Flanders Fields
Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War
E-bok, 2012
170 kr
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This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson …
Wars Of The Roses
England's First Civil War
Av Trevor Royle
Häftad, 2010
173 kr
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THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of the Wars while placing the conflict in the context of the time. This was a period with a rich legacy: …
Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
Av Trevor Royle
Inbunden, 2016
298 kr
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In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener’s latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the …
