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Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War 1902-1914 by Simon Batten

Leave a Comment / British Empire, Literature, Reviews, World War I / By Ben Powers

The popular notion of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, as it prepared to embark for France in 1914, is of a small, professional Army comprised of regulars, experienced in practical soldiering from years of warfare throughout the British Empire. While this Army may have experienced hard campaigning in South Africa against the …

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Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by David C. Bonk and George Anderson

Leave a Comment / British Empire, Literature, Reviews / By Ben Powers

David C. Bonk and George Anderson have produced an outstanding work of scholarship and art with their Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. The volume is a comprehensive summary of the conflict, written chronologically and covering 119 separate engagements or campaigns. Every entry is accompanied by narratives that are both …

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Lawrence of Arabia: Colonel T.E. Lawrence, CB, DSO, Places and Objects of Interest By Paul Kendall

Leave a Comment / British Empire, Reviews, World War I / By Ben Powers

Paul Kendall’s new book on the material history of the Lawrence of Arabia legend is chock full of amazing photographs that provide context to the story of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, which is to be expected from a visual history. Kendall goes beyond merely “curating content” and provides readers with mini-essays regarding …

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The Pattern, The 33rd Regiment and the British Infantry Experience During the American Revolution, 1770-1783 by Robbie MacNiven

British Empire, Reviews / By Ben Powers

The Pattern, part of the From Reason to Revolution series from Helion & Co, is a unique blend of traditional military history and modern social history focused on a microcosm of the British Army in the American Revolution. Author Robbie MacNiven focuses on the recruiting, training and equipping of the 33rd Regiment, diving deeply …

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A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution by author Craig L. Symonds; Cartography by William J. Clipson

British Empire, Literature, Reviews / By Ben Powers

Craig Symonds’ updated atlas provides an excellent companion to almost any battlefield study of the Revolutionary War

Kitchener: The Man Not the Myth by Anne Samson

British Empire, Literature, Reviews, World War I / By Ben Powers

A multi-dimensional view of one of Britain’s most distinguished officers Published by Helion & Company, LTD, available from Casemate Publishers The enduring image of Field Marshal Kitchener of Khartoum stares down through the decades since the First World War, index finger thrust towards the viewer enjoining him to action with the words “Your Country Needs …

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Journey Through the Wilderness: Garnet Wolseley’s Canadian Red River Expedition of 1870 by Paul McNicholls

British Empire, Literature, Reviews / By Ben Powers

The epic trek and bloodless campaign that made Wolseley’s career

Bull Run to Boer War: How the American Civil War Changed the British Army by Michael Somerville

British Empire, Civil War, Literature, Reviews / By Ben Powers

A fresh perspective on the lessons that Britain’s professional soldiers derived from the American Civil War

British Special Forces in WWII

Articles, British Empire, World War II / By Nick Jacobellis

The LRP/LRDG was created by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, a British Army Officer who spent the better part of a decade exploring the Libyan Desert before the outbreak of

hostilities in World War II. Based on his experiences as a peacetime explorer, Bagnold

envisioned the need for the British Army to deploy a motorized reconnaissance force, to

patrol the Libyan Desert in any future conflict that took place in the Middle East. In

many respects, Bagnold’s plan revitalized a concept that was effectively used in World

War I, when the British Light Car Patrols protected the Egyptian frontier from the

Turkish and German backed Senussi in the Western Desert.

The Saratoga Campaign in the Revolutionary War

Articles, British Empire, Civil War / By ARGunners Magazine

If it weren’t for the Saratoga Campaign during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. might still be a British colony. Okay, that seems a bit extreme, and it’s entirely possible that one other victory might have clinched “the win” to use baseball terms, but the campaign certainly was a major turning point in the war. Between …

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