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  • Sir Garnet Wolseley

    Soldier of Empire

    by Stephen Manning ...
    Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and the Sudan. He excelled as a regimental soldier, staff officer, army commander and reformer and eventually commander-in-chief. Yet there has been no ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900

    "The White Man's Grave"

    by Stephen Manning ...
    This authoritative military history chronicles the significant but overlooked colonial wars between the British and the Asante of West Africa.Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars. And yet these wars are ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples

    Lord Chelmsford's South African Campaigns

    by Stephen Manning ...
    Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in exhaustive detail, his earlier experience against the Xhosa ... Read more

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  • Evelyn Wood VC

    Pillar of Empire

    by Stephen Manning, Saul David ...
    Given the increasing interest in the Victorian era an authoritative biography of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC is long overdue. By any standards his career was remarkable and began with him in the Royal Navy in the Crimea before he transferred to the cavalry to see more action. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soldiers of the Queen

    Victorian Colonial Conflict in the Words of Those Who Fought

    by Stephen Manning ...
    It may come as some surprise that in such a popular area of military history there is no book that focuses on the experience of the Victorian soldier - from recruitment to embarkation, fighting and perhaps returning, perhaps dying - in his own words. Dr Manning's meticulous research in primary sources gives the lie to the received image of the disciplined, redcoated campaigner of Victorian art and ... Read more

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  • Bayonet to Barrage

    Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield

    by Stephen Manning ...
    How advances in weapons technology transformed the British soldier's experience of war during the nineteenth century.How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apart. How did this ... Read more

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  • The Martini-Henry Rifle

    by Dr Stephen Manning ...
    Series Book 26 - Weapon
    The breech-loading, single-shot .458in Martini-Henry rifle has become a symbol of both the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the numerous battles in Egypt and the Sudan in 1884–85, but continued to be used by both British and colonial troops well into the 20th century.Its invention and introduction into British service were in direct response to the success of the Prussian Dreyse needle gun, which ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • The Martini-Henry Rifle

    by Dr Stephen Manning ...
    Series Book 26 - Weapon
    The breech-loading, single-shot .458in Martini-Henry rifle has become a symbol of both the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the numerous battles in Egypt and the Sudan in 1884–85, but continued to be used by both British and colonial troops well into the 20th century. Its invention and introduction into British service were in direct response to the success of the Prussian Dreyse needle gun, which ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Lee-Enfield Rifle

    by Martin Pegler ...
    Series Book 17 - Weapon
    The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles. It was adopted by the British Army in 1895 and only replaced by the L1A1 SLR in 1957. It saw combat from the Boer War onwards, and thousands are still in use today; it is estimated that 17 million have been produced. Soldier's recollections of the rifle are overwhelmingly affectionate (it was known ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Redcoat

    The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    by Richard Holmes ...
    Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.Delving into the history of the period – charting events including Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul and the Sikh wars – celebrated military historian Richard Holmes ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Great Boer War

    by Byron Farwell ...
    The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by " a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars" ( Kirkus Reviews).The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British ... 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

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus