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  • Arrogant Armies

    Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them

    "Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition."--from the IntroductionARROGANT ARMIESSpanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Rifles

    The British Light Infantry and Rifle Regiments, 1758?1815

    by Ray Cusick ...
    Until now there has not been a serious study of the rifle-armed regiments of the British Army that earned such renown in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. Compiled by a former rifleman, Ray Cusick, who has written extensively on the subject, Wellington’s Rifles examines the new rifle regiments, how they came about, their development, and their actions.The author also investigates the ... Read more

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  • In Love & War

    The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

    An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married ... Read more

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  • Military Blunders

    by Saul David ...
    Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history, this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. Beginning in AD9 with the massacre of Varus and his legions in the Black Forest all the way up to present day conflict in Afghanistan it analyses why ... Read more

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  • Gallipoli

    A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus ... Read more

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  • Scapegoats

    Thirteen Victims of Military Injustice

    by Michael Scott ...
    At all costs avoid blame.” Such is the creed of dictators and politicians, tycoons and company chairmen, media celebrities, and spin doctors the world over. But what about men at war, where the penalties for errors of judgment can be devastating? History is full of tales of those who have been wrongly castigated in the rush to find a culprit; only later, sometimes much later, when the real truth ... Read more

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  • Fighting Words

    Canada's Best War Reporting

    by Mark Bourrie ...
    Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings' fight with North American Natives, through New France's struggle for survival against the Iroquois and British, to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Rebellions of Lower and Upper Canada, the Fenian raids, the North-West ... Read more

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  • The Book of War

    25 Centuries of Great War Writing

    by John Keegan ...
    Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battleIn The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants—from Thucydides’ classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground fighting against the Iraqi ... Read more

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  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    by Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

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  • Redcoated Ploughboys

    The Volunteer Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada, 1813-1815

    In 1812, the future of British North America hung in the balance as the United States declared war with the avowed goal of conquering the Canadas and removing British influence from the continent forever.In response, a corps of men, drawn from every walk of life and social stratum of Upper Canada, stepped forward to defend their fledgling colony by volunteering to serve in the Battalion of ... Read more

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  • Alternate Generals II

    Edited by Harry Turtledove ...
    Series Book 2 - Alternate Generals
    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE . . .... as history demonstrates. But there are other factors at work. Would Sir Francis Drake have as easily put paid to the Spanish Armada if a typhoon hadn't softened up the enemy first What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea had more (or fewer) forces, better (or worse) weather, quicker (or slower) communications, ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Kabul (1879) - part of the Bretwalda Battles series

    Bretwalda Battles, #10

    by Oliver Hayes ...
    Series Book 10 - Bretwalda Battles
    With British & American troops again in Afghanistan, this book looks back to a previous conflict when Islamic fundamentalists again sought to overthrow the government of Afghanistan and British troops went in to pacify the area.In September 1879 rebels against Emir Yaqub Khan massacred the British residents of Kabul. The British put together a column of 7,000 men to march on Kabul, punish the ... Read more

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