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Michael Barthorp
In 1854 the British Army was committed to its first major war against a European power since 1815. The expeditionary force, or ‘Army of the East’, was despatched to Turkey…
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The Army of 1882 had just emerged from the many modernizing reforms effected between 1856-81. These included: opening of schools of instruction; abolition of the purchase of commissions; improvements in…
Part of the Men-At-Arms series, this illustrated book examines Napoleon’s Egyptian campaigns of 1798-1801.
The succession of the French Duke of Anjou to the Spanish throne in 1700 provoked the formation of a Grand Alliance to thwart the king’s expansionist ambitions. Led by the…
Between the first Jacobite rising in 1689 and the final collapse of the cause in 1746, the hopes of the House of Stuart were centred chiefly on Scotland. It is…
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Michael Barthorp’s study of the key commanders that served Victoria.
Alexis Soyer
Alexis Soyer is known as the great cook of the Reform Club and an author of a number of cookery books who single-handedly transformed Army catering which in the mid-nineteenth…
