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      The Great War: 1914-1918

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      The First World War was the defining event of the twentieth century. No previous war matched it in scale, brutality and futility. This account moves beyond a more military narrative…

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      The Great War: 1914-1918

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      Starting with the context and origins of the war, this work questions common assumptions about the nature of the First World War and how it has been consistently and, wrongly…

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      Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837-1902

      Ian F W Beckett

      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…

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      Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837-1902

      Ian F W Beckett

      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…

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      A British Profession of Arms: The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, F.W. Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study…

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      Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      A guide to British military history by a leading military historian

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      Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859-1908

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      Drawing from a range of primary source material such as official, regimental, local and private repositories, this work examines the Rifle Volunteer Movement.

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      British Military Panoramas: Battle in the Round, 1800-1914

      Ian F W Beckett

      Originating in the 1780s, 360 Degrees panorama paintings were immensely popular in nineteenth century Britain, those devoted to battle bringing together art, patriotism and mass entertainment in ways that reinforced…

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      The British Army

      Ian F. W. Beckett

      The story of the British Army, from the first standing army in the seventeenth century, via the imperial army of the nineteenth century, the world wars, and the people's army…

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      Counter-Insurgency: Lessons from History

      Ian F. W. Beckett,John Pimlott

      Previous ed.: Armed forces and modern counter-insurgency. 1985.

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      Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles

      Ian F. W. Beckett (Honorary Professor of Military History, University of Kent)

      The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke’s Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride…

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      Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles

      Ian F. W. Beckett (Honorary Professor of Military History, University of Kent)

      The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke’s Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride…

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      Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750

      Ian F. W. Beckett,Ian F. Beckett (University of Luton, UK)

      This text explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from 18th-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today. In addition to…

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      Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750

      Ian F. W. Beckett,Ian F. Beckett (University of Luton, UK)

      This text explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from 18th-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today. In addition to…

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