British Military
There are 337 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 New: $12.95 Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys
by William Pennington  Synopsis This is a story of a boy soldier in India....
|
||||||
New: $27.50 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington
by Lawrence James Publisher Comments “Lord Wellington don’t know how to lose a battle.” This view of a soldier at Waterloo became the judgment of the world on the man who was hailed as the first general of his age. At Waterloo, Wellington defeated Napoleon, the master of...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Isandlwana: 1879 (Battles in Focus)
by Ian Beckett Synopsis The story of a major battle of the Zulu War. The 20,000 strong Zulu force defeated the British, forcing Lord Chelmsford to revise his plans to invade Zululand, but although only 350 of the 1500 British survived, the loss of several thousand Zulus was...
|
||||||
Used: $12.50 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Charge the Real Reason Why the Light Bri
by Mark Adkin Publisher Comments History has disagreed over who was to blame for one of Britain’s best-known military disasters. The book makes a masterly analysis of the probabilities, discusses factors previously overlooked, and argues that the blunder was deliberate....
|
||||||
Used: $12.00 Hardcover List Price $45.00
add to wish list |
|
Earl Bathurst and the British Empire
by Neville Thompson Synopsis While the years offer Napoleon's defeat in 1815 are often glossed over as peaceful and uneventful, for Lord Bathurst, Britain's Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, they were ones of frenzied activity that did much to create the world balance of...
|
||||||
Used: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
3 Para - Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle (Elite Forces Operations Series)
by Jon Cooksey Publisher Comments This, the first in a new series on Special Operations, tells the story of 3 Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon....
|
||||||
New: $36.25 Hardcover List Price $39.95
add to wish list |
|
Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe
by Stephen Brumwell Synopsis Tormented by agonising illness, British Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero. In 1759, however, he led a successful attack on French troops on the Plains of Abraham above Quebec, ensuring that Britain, not France, would become the dominant...
|
||||||
New: $11.16 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Montgomery (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments This fascinating study of military leadership follows British general Bernard Law Montgomery??'s military career from his cadet days and service in World War I to his great victories of World War II, including his defeat of the great German panzer...
|
||||||
New: $13.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Wellington: The Iron Duke (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Philip J. Haythornthwaite Publisher Comments One of the Duke of Wellington's officers once remarked, We would rather see his long nose in the sight than a reinforcement of ten thousand men. Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769???1852), was one of the greatest military commanders in...
|
||||||
Used: $19.25 Hardcover List Price $29.95
add to wish list |
|
With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial, Zululand, 1879
by Ian Knight Publisher Comments Witten by the acknowledged authority on the Anglo-Zulu War, this is the tragic and dramatic story of the death of the last heir to the Imperial throne of France, killed while fighting with the British in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and of the scandal and...
|
||||||
Sale: $12.98 Hardcover List Price $34.95
add to wish list |
|
The Royal Marines: A History
by Richard Brooks Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-328). and index....
|
||||||
Used: $18.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Complete War Walks: British Battles from Hastings to Normandy
by Richard Holmes Synopsis In "The Complete War Walks" Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium that mark crucial moments in Britain's bloody and turbulent history....
|
||||||
Used: $14.00 Hardcover List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
Canada's Little War: Fighting for the British Empire in Southern Africa 1899-1902
by Carman Miller Synopsis The Boer War in South Africa was Canada's first trial by fire. The pre-eminent superpower of the day, Great Britain, had decided to wage one of its 'little wars' against two white Protestant, Dutch-speaking republics in southern Africa, who had declared...
|
||||||
New: $35.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Black Soldiers of the Queen: The Natal Native Contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War
by P S Thompson Publisher Comments Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king. “Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battles of Isandlwana, Rorke’s...
|
||||||
New: $14.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French
by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments Despite being the most capable cavalry leader of his generation, Sir John French has always aroused controversy. Posterity has judged him an unfeeling butcher, responsible for more deaths in the first two hours of the battle of Loos than all the...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Trade Paper List Price $18.95
add to wish list |
|
Campaign #041: Rorke's Drift, 1879
by Ian Knight Synopsis Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The...
|
||||||
New: $45.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859-1908
by Ian F W Beckett Publisher Comments Lt.-Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley commented that history would record the formation of the Volunteers Movement as one of the most remarkable events in the century. In this study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, the author Ian Beckett has drawn from a wide...
|
||||||
Used: $19.95 Hardcover List Price $32.95
add to wish list |
|
Among Friends: the Scots Guards, 1956-1993
by Murray Naylor Synopsis In between tours of duty at Buckingham Palace, the Scots Guards are regularly deployed to the world's trouble spots. This very up-to-date history covers the regiment's service in the Falklands and Persian Gulf....
|
||||||
New: $31.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Campaigns and Commanders " #12: Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902
by Stephen M Miller Synopsis How England's volunteers got more than they bargained for in the Boer War...
|
||||||
Used: $9.75 Trade Paper List Price $18.95
add to wish list |
|
Campaign #014: Zulu War, 1879: Twilight of a Warrior Nation
by Ian Knight Synopsis In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they engineered a war. The early campaigns went terribly wrong,...
|
||||||
