From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victoria’s army.
From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victoria’s army.
The fully illustrated David-vs-Goliath story of the Boer commandos and British mounted troops who fought one another in South Africa in the final years of the Victorian era.
A gripping and vivid account of one of the British army's most famous battles
This work is one of the most widley known military campaigns of the Victorian era. It contains graphic eyewitness accounts from both sides and additional chapters cover what remains to be seen today, in museums, the battlefields, and the lonely graves of the fallen.
The frontier outlaws who defied the authorities on the wild Australian frontier in the Victorian era, and the Crown forces who eventually hunted them down.
A new study of the battles fought between Queen Victoria’s infantry and the formidable Mahdists in the Sudan, from the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884–85 to the climactic battles in 1898.
This book covers the organisation, uniforms and very different tactics involved in the conflict, from guerrilla warfare to a final war of attrition that the Boers could not hope to win.
A fascinating investigation into the extraordinary events of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
A compact volume about the famous battle that sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line.
A highly illustrated account of the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Victorian era, from a world-leading authority.
Containing a number of rare contemporary photographs and eight colour plates, the book charts the history of these campaigns and describes the African groups against which they were waged.