The Victorians at War - Hardcover

Beckett, Ian F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852852755 ISBN 13: 9781852852757

Verlag: Hambledon Continuum, 2003

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"Clearly written, with a good range of archival support and a clear enthusiasm for its subject, Ian Beckett's book will certainly repay strategic raid by all scholars of the nineteenth century" Journal of Victorian Culture (Spring 2004)

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The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars and policing wherever British interests demanded it, whether in Canada, the Crimea, Afghanistan or the Sudan. Very small by continental standards, the Victorian army combined a strong sense of tradition with considerable professionalism. The variety of tasks it had to undertake gave its officers and men an extraordinary range of challenges and experiences: putting down the Indian Mutiny, fighting in the jungles of West Africa, facing a Zulu impi and Boer sharpshooters, or garrisoning the many outposts of the empire. In The Victorians at War Ian Beckett looks at the men and their leaders from a variety of angles, using particular incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought.

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• Verlag: Hambledon Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1852852755
• ISBN 13: 9781852852757
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288