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Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars
The "Christian Centurion"
Av Ismini Pells
Inbunden, 2020
2667 kr
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Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no other high-ranking parliamentarian enjoyed …
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars
The "Christian Centurion"
Av Ismini Pells
Häftad, 2021
749 kr
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Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no other high-ranking parliamentarian enjoyed …
Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660
Häftad, 2017
2132 kr
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This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents, this work explores the manner in which civil conflict, invasion and military occupation affected religious practice. As Churches …
War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914
Häftad, 2018
787 kr
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This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations …
Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944
Av Simon Anglim
Häftad, 2016
873 kr
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Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography fills a significant void in the literature, making extensive use of Wingate's papers to place him firmly in the context of …
Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during …
Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648
Av Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the …
Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book argues that the campaign's development was driven more by what was logistictically possible than by …
Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603–1642
Av Jason White
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Focusing on the impact of Continental religious warfare on the society, politics and culture of English, Scottish and Irish Protestantism, this study is concerned with the way in which British identity developed in the early Stuart period.
Jacobite Campaigns
The British State at War
Häftad, 2016
951 kr
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The military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the three mainland campaigns of 1715–6, 1719 and 1745–6 are examined, using research based on primary sources: memoirs, …
Arming the Royal Navy, 1793-1815
The Office of Ordnance and the State
Av Gareth Cole
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an …
1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion
Av Annaleigh Margey, Annaleigh Margey m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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The 1641 Depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern Irish history. This essay collection is part of a major project run by Trinity College, Dublin, using the depositions to investigate the life and culture of seventeenth-century Ireland.
Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Av Kaushik Roy
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
German Soldiers in Colonial India
Häftad, 2017
891 kr
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Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of …
Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660
E-bok, 2015
2603 kr
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This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents, this work explores the manner in which civil conflict, invasion and military occupation affected religious practice. As Churches …
Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660
E-bok, 2015
2603 kr
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This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents, this work explores the manner in which civil conflict, invasion and military occupation affected religious practice. As Churches …
Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
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Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book argues that the campaign's development was driven more by what was logistictically possible than by …
Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
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Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book argues that the campaign's development was driven more by what was logistictically possible than by …
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
E-bok, 2015
856 kr
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During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
E-bok, 2015
856 kr
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During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648
Av Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the …
Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648
Av Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the …
German Soldiers in Colonial India
E-bok, 2015
1052 kr
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Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of …
German Soldiers in Colonial India
E-bok, 2015
1052 kr
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Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of …
Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Av Kaushik Roy
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
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Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Av Kaushik Roy
E-bok, 2015
967 kr
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Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion
Av Annaleigh Margey, Annaleigh Margey m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
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The 1641 Depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern Irish history. This essay collection is part of a major project run by Trinity College, Dublin, using the depositions to investigate the life and culture of seventeenth-century Ireland.
1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion
Av Annaleigh Margey, Annaleigh Margey m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 1641 Depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern Irish history. This essay collection is part of a major project run by Trinity College, Dublin, using the depositions to investigate the life and culture of seventeenth-century Ireland.
Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during …
