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Author : William Lawrence
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781873376058
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Dorset Soldier written by William Lawrence and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal story and a piece of social history.
Author : William Lawrence
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781873376515
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (765 download)
Download or read book A Dorset Soldier written by William Lawrence and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lawrence's autobiography, with its simple, vivid descriptions of the campaigns of the 40th Regiment some 200 years ago, provides a sharp insight into the nature of war.
Author : Eileen Hathaway
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (764 download)
Download or read book A Dorset Soldier: The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence, 1790-1869 written by Eileen Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Hollands
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398109274
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Dorset's Military Heritage written by Dean Hollands and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will interest anyone keen to know more about Dorset’s remarkable local military history through time.
Author : Sharon Murphy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113755083X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 written by Sharon Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers – and leisure – at this period. Murphy’s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
Author : Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781383847
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Soldiers as Workers written by Nick Mansfield and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working lives of nineteenth British rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working class industrial culture and in its interaction with British society.
Author : Jonathan Crook
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473819733
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Very Thing written by Jonathan Crook and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures. His writings provide an evocative portrait of an ordinary soldier’s perception of living with one of the most experienced Napoleonic infantry battalions. He was discharged in 1823 for ill health, but lived a full life, dying in 1878 as an old man. Jonathan Crook has meticulously researched his ancestor’s life, finding unpublished first-hand accounts from Bentinck of desperate conflict across the globe, from Copenhagen to Martinique, throughout the Peninsular Campaign and culminating at the battle of Waterloo. These accounts are drawn from interviews that Bentinck conducted with a journalist just before his death. The title of the book is taken from the Battle of Aldea de Ponte: Wellington identified a tactical vulnerability and called for infantry to conduct an immediate manoeuvre. On being informed that the 23rd of Foot was best disposed, he smiled and said, ‘Ah, the very thing,’ demonstrative of his hard-earned confidence.
Author : Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624932
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Soldiers as Citizens written by Nick Mansfield and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rank and file soldiers were not ‘the scum of the earth’ but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian culture. While they often exhibited pride in regiment and nation, soldiers could also demonstrate a growing class consciousness and support for political radicalism. The book will challenge assumptions that the British army was politically neutral, if privately conservative, by uncovering a rich vein of liberal and radical political thinking among some soldiers, officers and political commentators. This ranges from the Whig ‘militia’ tradition, through radical theories on tactics and army reform, to attempted ultra-radical subversion amongst troops, and the involvement of soldiers in riots and risings. Case studies are given of individual 'military radicals', soldiers or ex-soldiers who were reforming and later socialist activists. Popular anti-French feeling of the Napoleonic Wars is examined, alongside examples of rank and file bravery which fostered widespread loyalty and patriotism. This contributed to soldiers being used successfully in strike breaking, and deployed against rioters or Chartist revolts. By the late Victorian period, popular imperialism was an important part of working-class support for Conservatism. The book explores what impact this had on rank and file soldiers, whilst outlining minority support for socialism.
Author : Kevin Linch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276029
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Redcoats to Tommies written by Kevin Linch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier's place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Eclectic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bakewell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 184832698X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Exploits of Ensign Bakewell Ms written by Robert Bakewell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of several engagements in the Peninsula after the advance from the Lines of Torres Vedras and pursuit of Masséna, and including the first siege of Badajoz, edited from the original manuscript and with an explanatory commentary and notes by an experienced author well acquainted with both the period and the scenes of action. Fills a gap in the history of the Innis killings, the years 1812 to 1814 only being covered in Charles Crowe's war Journals, recently published by Frontline Books as 'An Eloquent Soldier'. Describes the French flight from Waterloo and - rarely revealed before - the life of a young officer in a promiscuous Paris during the earlier weeks of the Occupation. Contains a number of contemporary illustrations not previously published.
Author : Janet Bromley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781594120
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 1 written by Janet Bromley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.
Author : Nick Lipscombe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810473
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Waterloo written by Nick Lipscombe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces. Ten articles by internationally renowned historians examine the battle from different angles, from the microcosm of the bitter fighting for the fortified farmhouse of Hougoumont through to a wider perspective of the 100-day campaign in its entirety. The official publication of the Waterloo 200 organization, slipcased and highly collectible, Waterloo: The Decisive Victory offers a unique and authoritative history of one of the most important battles in world history.
Author : Robert Kershaw
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448133866
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book 24 Hours at Waterloo written by Robert Kershaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me with his sword as he walked by. Immediately after, another, with his firelock and bayonet, gave me a terrible plunge, and while doing it with all his might, exclaimed, “Sacré nom de Dieu!” ’ The truly epic and brutal battle of Waterloo was a pivotal moment in history – a single day, one 24-hour period, defined the course of Europe’s future. In March 1815, the Allies declared war on Napoleon in response to his escape from exile and the renewed threat to imperial European rule. Three months later, on 18 June 1815, having suffered considerable losses at Quatre-Bras, Wellington’s army fell back on Waterloo, some ten miles south of Brussels. Halting on the ridge, they awaited Napoleon’s army, blocking their entry to the capital. This would become the Allies’ final stand, the infamous battle of Waterloo. In this intimate, hour-by-hour account, acclaimed military historian Robert Kershaw resurrects the human stories at the centre of the fighting, creating an authoritative single-volume biography of this landmark battle. Drawing on his profound insight and a field knowledge of military strategy, Kershaw takes the reader to where the impact of the orders was felt, straight into the heart of the battle, shoulder to shoulder with the soldiers on the mud-splattered ground. Masterfully weaving together painstakingly researched eyewitness accounts, diaries and letters – many never before seen or published – this gripping portrayal of Waterloo offers unparalleled authenticity. Extraordinary images of the men and women emerge in full colour; the voices of the sergeants, the exhausted foot-soldiers, the boy ensigns, the captains and the cavalry troopers, from both sides, rise from the page in vivid and telling detail, as the fate of Europe hangs by a thread.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sydney George Dimond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Psychology of the Methodist Revival written by Sydney George Dimond and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
