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  • MODERN COUNTER-INSURGENCY
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    MODERN COUNTER-INSURGENCY
    IAN BECKETT
    Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of conflict in the modern world since the end of the Second World War. Accordingly, it has posed a major challenge to conventional armed forces, all of whom have had to evolve counter-insurgency methods in response. The volume brings together classic articles on the counter-insurgency experience since 1945. ...

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  • CITIZEN SOLDIERS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1837-1902
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    CITIZEN SOLDIERS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1837-1902
    IAN F W BECKETT
    The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period. ...

    $1,279.00

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  • THE GREAT WAR
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    THE GREAT WAR
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunder...

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  • YPRES
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    YPRES
    IAN BECKETT
    The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy. ...

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  • MODERN INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES
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    MODERN INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from eighteenth-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today. Insurgency remains one of the most prevalent forms of conflict and presents a crucial challenge to the international communi ...

    $1,179.00

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  • RIFLEMEN FORM
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    RIFLEMEN FORM
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    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 range of primary source material such as official, regimental, local and private repositories. He has been able to put into persp...

    $119.00

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  • A GUIDE TO BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY
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    A GUIDE TO BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support national history and nationalism. Now, though, the study of war has been transformed by the war and society approach, by the examination of identity, memory and gender, and a less Euro-...

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  • A NATION IN ARMS
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    A NATION IN ARMS
    IAN F. W. BECKETT / KEITH SIMPSON
    The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and...

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  • RIFLEMEN FORM
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    RIFLEMEN FORM
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    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 range of primary source material such as official, regimental, local and private repositories. He has been able to put into persp...

    $119.00

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