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Author : Thomas F. G. Coates
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Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Hector Macdonald written by Thomas F. G. Coates and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas F. G. Coates
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Download or read book Hector MacDonald Or The Private who Became a General written by Thomas F. G. Coates and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Crichton Smith
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907263
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book An Honourable Death written by Iain Crichton Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1870, a seventeen-year-old crofter's son turned his back on his apprenticeship with the Royal Clan and Tartan Warehouse in Inverness and signed up as a private in Queen Victoria's army. He joined the Gordons - the 92nd Highlanders - whose reputation was second to none as the fearsome cutting-edge of the British Army. Posted to India, Afghanistan, South Africa and the Sudan, he became a formidable soldier, rising up through the ranks to become the glorified and much-decorated Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald or, more commonly, 'Fighting Mac', the true hero of Omdurman. Then, in 1903, at the peak of his remarkable career, he was accused of homosexuality. Ordered to face court martial and unable to bear the disgrace, he ended his life. From this true story, with a poet's insight and precision, Iain Crichton Smith has crafted an exquisite novel: a tale of honour and elitism, equivocation and hierocracy, victory and despair.
Author : Heather Streets
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847793940
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Martial races written by Heather Streets and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As ‘martial races’ these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies - a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire. Martial Races bridges regional studies of South Asia and Britain while straddling the fields of racial theory, masculinity, imperialism, identity politics, and military studies. Of particular importance is the way it exposes the historical instability of racial categories based on colour and its insistence that historically specific ideologies of masculinity helped form the logic of imperial defence, thus wedding gender theory with military studies in unique ways. Moreover, Martial Races challenges the marginalisation of the British Army in histories of Victorian popular culture, and demonstrates the army’s enduring impact on the regional cultures of the Highlands, the Punjab and Nepal. This unique study will make fascinating reading for higher level students and experts in imperial history, military history and gender history.
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Total Pages : 1410 pages
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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : Bruce Bassett Powell
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149237
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Armies of Bismarck's Wars written by Bruce Bassett Powell and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 3rd, 1866 a Prussian army overwhelmed and defeated an Austrian army near the fortress city of Kniggrtz in a bloody battle that lasted all day. At a stroke, the foremost power in Germany and central Europe had been reduced to a second rate player. The event caused anxiety and alarm in the capitals of the western world. How was an upstart country like Prussia able to upset the balance of power in Europe? Only sixteen years before it had been put in its place by Austria with the treaty of Olmtz. Its performance as an Austrian ally had been less than stellar in the 2nd Schleswig War of 1864 despite its defeat of the Danes at Dppel. Yet within five years a Prussian led army would humble France and a Prussian King would be crowned Emperor of a united Germany. The history of the world would be changed forever. The story of this army is the subject of a new book by Bruce Bassett-Powell The Armies of BismarckÕs Wars Ð Prussia 1860-1867. He chronicles its growth from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the reforms of the eighteen sixties followed by a full account of the wars against Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866. He shows how the confluence of three menÕs lives; King William I, Helmuth von Molkte and Otto von Bismarck provided the essential ingredients that created this victorious army. The growth and influence of the General Staff is examined along with the recruitment and training of officers and men. He fully describes the organization of the army and the fledgling navy as well as the weapons with which they fought. In particular he gives a detailed account of their dress and accoutrements accompanied by 24 full page color illustrations depicting over 70 uniforms.
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
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Author : John Malcolm Bulloch
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Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Territorial Soldiering in the North-east of Scotland During 1759-1814 written by John Malcolm Bulloch and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book The Celtic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393305333
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Eminent Victorian Soldiers written by Byron Farwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farwell provides profiles of eight Victorian military officers--men who helped create the British Empire and whose lives reflect the age. Photos.
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Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572409
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Fighting Mac written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most famous soldiers had ended his life rather than face charges against his character.The suicide and its aftermath created a national scandal and one which still reverberates long after those dramatic events - it is now clear that the official files dealing with his case, the papers of the Judge Advocate have been destroyed. Macdonald or 'Fighting Mac' as he was known to an adoring public, was no ordinary soldier. A crofter's son who had risen from the ranks in the Victorian army, he covered himself with glory during a long and successful military career and in 1898 was widely acknowledged as the true hero of the Battle of Omdurman, which cemented British Imperial rule in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Everything lay at his feet - a knighthood, honours, the respect of fellow generals such as Roberts and Kitchener - but Macdonald's career came to a shocking full stop when he stood accused of homosexuality and was ordered to face a court martial. Unable to come to terms with the disgrace, he committed suicide. That should have been the end of his story but so powerful was the myth created by Fighting Mac that people refused to believe he was dead. Soon rumours were circulating that Macdonald had faked his death and had adopted the persona of a prominent Prussian officer, the future Field Marshal August con Mackensen, one of Germany's great leaders during the First World War. FIGHTING MAC tells the true story behind his disgrace and sheds new light on the myths....
Author : Aonghas Grant
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619115018
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Glengarry Collection, Volume 1 written by Aonghas Grant and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glengarry Collection contains 164 Slow Airs, Marches, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs and Hornpipes with Stories, History and Photographs. It focuses on the coreof Aonghas' music: Highland fiddling, with its links to pipe tunes andGaelic songs. Some of these tunes have never been published before, while others are available only in out-of-print books or in pipe settings, and the collection also includes a number of tunes composed by Aonghas himself, andtunes composed in honor of Aonghas. The tunes are fully chorded in a style appropriate to Aonghas' band experience. All these are richly illustrated by transcriptions of Aonghas' bowings, grace-notes, stories, and photos of scenes and people from Aonghas' varied life careers, including old family photos. Finally, there is an accompanying online videos of Aonghas' impromptu and passionateperformances of 61 of the tunes in the collection. Inlcudes access to online video
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Total Pages : 1068 pages
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Author : William Douglas Mackenzie
Publisher : W. Briggs c1899.
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Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book South Africa written by William Douglas Mackenzie and published by W. Briggs c1899.. This book was released on 1899 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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