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The Irish and European Brigades in Boer service in South Africa By virtue of its abiding and justified fame, the term 'Foreign Legion' is usually thought to mean the standing force in the service of...

'The sand of the desert is sodden red The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead' This is a fascinating memoir of the early career of a prominent British soldier of the late 19th and early 20th...

Author: AquilaPublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: Aug 12, 2020Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1782829113ISBN-13: 9781782829119

Up the Indus to Ghuznee and Kabul William Taylor, the author of this book, was a trooper in H.M 4th Light Dragoons in India as the campaign began to place Shah Shuja on the throne of Afghanistan. The...

The F. A. N. Ys-first anywhere! The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was a female organisation formed in 1907. Its aim was not only to provide competent first aid on the battlefield put also to train its...

From Spain across the mountains into Southern France The author of this account, a young subaltern of the British First Foot Guards, joined Wellingtons Army in the closing stages of the war with...

The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of their number-a padre-through the Great Boer War. The inexorable slowness of the...

An outstanding first hand account and history of the first battles of the Great War The Great War had long been planned by Imperial Germany and its army stood ready to advance through Belgium and...

Two books in one volume-two first hand accounts by British subalterns in contrasting theatres of the Great War The first of the books in this double volume tells of the activities of a battery of the...

The Imperial Camel Corps had a short but eventful existence. Operating in the Western desert against the Senussi in Sinai, in the Palestine Campaign, and in Arabia, it played an important part in the...

This is a Leonaur original-never before in print. Cooke wrote three volumes of his military memoirs which originally embraced his service in America and the War of 1812 and which also included...

Author: Rowlands Coldicott, Edmund DanePublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: Nov 19, 2021Number of Pages: 204 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 191523431XISBN-13: 9781915234315

With the Madras European Regiment in Burma. The British Empire's first Jungle war. This is a fascinating book. It is the first-hand account of an officer of the Madras European Regiment of the...

A unique edition of 'A Frontier Campaign' This remarkable book of military experiences on the North West Frontier of India during the last years of the 19th century was written by two young serving...

The 'Jack Tars' at war in the Mediterranean, the desert and along the River NileThere is an abiding interest among historians and students of the military campaigns of the Victorian era in the...

The engineers, sappers and miners during the closing battles of the Napoleonic WarsThe initial part of this book contains letters written to his father, by a British officer of the Royal Engineers...

Two essential accounts of the tankers at war-in one special edition These two books have more in common than their subject-the lives and battles of British soldiers and their mighty metal war...

With Wellington's Light Cavalry - Campaigning with the 16th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. A cavalryman's story that could have ended before it began...

An unusual perspective on the Crimean War The author of this book-a Polish officer reluctantly serving with the Russian Army-has left us a revealing account of the war in the Crimea from the...

Exploits of one of the most successful German surface raiders in the Great WarThe SMS Wolf was a particularly successful surface commerce raider--or auxiliary cruiser--of the Imperial German Navy...

An unsung heroine of the Crimean War The flickering light that emanated from Florence Nightingale's lamp penetrated more darkness than she or anyone else of her time will have imagined. It...

The opening campaign of the Great War as seen by the German Army History, it is said, is written by the victors and that is generally true. It is therefore often difficult for the military historian...

Author: Isabel AndersonPublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: Aug 12, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1782829458ISBN-13: 9781782829454

From the invasion of Zululand & Isandhlwana to Rorke's Drift & Ulundi-the Zulu War freshly related Zulu:1879 is an unusual book. It brings to life a war - nearly 130 years in the past - almost as...

An erudite examination of a great military catastrophe Whilst several works were written concerning the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 in years immediately following the event, the proliferation of wars that...