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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. ...

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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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  • 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...

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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 ...

    $1,340.00

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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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  • WANTON TROOPERS
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    WANTON TROOPERS
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    The causes of the three English Civil Wars (1642 to 1645, 1648, and 1651) are complex and controversial clashes of conviction, belief, and personality, and a struggle between opposing social groups and economic interests. But, whatever the focus of scholarship, many answers can be sought at the local level, among county communities that were far more outward-looking than once s...

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  • ROMMEL
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    ROMMEL
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, seventy years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where it took on almost legendary proportions, and the legend is still with us today...

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  • COUNTER INSURGENCY
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    COUNTER INSURGENCY
    IAN F. W. BECKETT / JOHN PIMLOTT
    An international study of counter-insurgency strategies, tactics, and techniques developed in warzones from Vietnam to Latin America and beyond. Insurgencies account for most of the modern world's armed conflicts. Leading armies across the globe are constantly developing and adjusting counter-insurgency strategies based on experience in the field. Learning from this experience ...

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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 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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