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This book provides a detailed insight into the one of the greatest popular uprisings in European history and explores the organization, tactics, and experience on the battlefield of the peasant bands which faced the Landsknecht armies of the German nobility.

A revisionist history of the later Covenanter Rebellions, impacting on the later Monmouth and Jacobite Rebellions. The book provides in-depth analysis of Government and Covenanter forces, while narrating the battles of Rullion Green, Drumclog, Bothwell Brig and Aird's Moss.

This volume completes the study of Tudor warfare. It provides a detailed description and analysis of the campaigns and battles of Elizabeth's reign together with their political and diplomatic background. It also explains how her armies were raised, equipped, supported and commanded.

John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove challenges the traditional accounts of Hampden's fatal wounding on 18 June 1643 and subsequent death.

This book charts the raising, equipping, maintenance and deployment of the various militia and auxiliary cavalry formations established in and around the City of London during the English Civil War by Parliament.

This narrative of the war in Ireland from October 1641 to September 1643 critically evaluates the performance of the Irish or Catholic armies and reveals the underlying shape of what would otherwise seem to be a shapeless sprawl of battles, sieges, skirmishes, massacres, and cattle raids.

Admiral Anson won fame and fortune during his circumnavigation of the globe, 1740-1744. He defeated the French at Cape Finisterre, 1747 and, as First Lord, reformed the officer corps and modernized ship design. Lord Anson made a major contribution to the defeat of France and Spain in the Seven Years War.

The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's official history of the Russian Forces involvement fighting against Napoleon and his allies in 1806-07, during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Just three months after Napoleon had expelled the British from Spain in January 1809, a second expeditionary force, under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, set sail for Lisbon to re-establish a British presence on the Iberian Peninsula.

In December 1899 the British Army suffered a series of defeats in the course of a few days which became known as Black Week. Although heavily outnumbering the burgher armies of the Boer Republics, the British were unable to adapt to the local conditions or to the requirements of modern warfare.

The War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779) was the last confrontation between the Prussia of Frederick the Great and the Austrians, in which the Prussian king was unable to force his enemies to battle. This is the first modern study of this conflict.

An account of Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau's victory over a Saxon army and its Austrian allies, which brought an end to the Second Silesian War.

The book provides a vastly illustrated in-depth history of the development of the (later) so-called 'battleship' in the Prussian and subsequent Imperial German Navy, from its early beginnings to the last projects, like it never had been told in this depth in a single book before.

A fresh study of the tumultuous events of summer 1870 when Moltke's German armies destroyed Napoleon's Imperial army, laying the foundations for a military and political hegemony lasting into the 20th Century.

A modern study of the role and performance of the Spanish Navy during the Spanish American War of 1898.

This volume presents the most intense military conflict of 1848-1849, the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence. From June 1848 to October 1849, Hungary, which had gained autonomous government within the Austrian Empire, fought an armed struggle to preserve it, first against the imperial and finally against the Russian army.

The Heroes We Needed is an epic saga about the courageous American airmen who brought the Japanese Empire to its knees and ended World War II with the greatest bombers the world had ever seen, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and one man's fight 70 years later to save their stories from being forgotten.

From the moment that they arrived in North America the English settlers in both Virginia and New England came into conflict with the native tribes over the acquisition of land. With little attempt at peaceful resolution the English massacred, eliminated or displaced many of them.

In this short book historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa's Cape Colony in the aftermath of the British occupation in 1806.

The story of Tony Hunter-Choat's service in the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion during the Algerian War. It draws on the unpublished memoir of this much decorated legionnaire: Commander of the Légion d'Honneur, Médaille Militaire and three awards of the Croix de la Valeur Militaire.

How did the newly re-constituted British 34th Division, with all of its infantry battalions fresh off the ships from Egypt and Palestine together with the 15th (Scottish) Division find themselves fighting in the French Xe Armée in the summer of 1918 under General Charles Mangin, a man known by his men as The Butcher of Verdun?

A study of the Indian Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front. Part of the Indian Corps, the Brigade went into action to support the BEF in holding back the German advance to the sea. The Indian sepoys fought with great loss in an unfamiliar theater.

Infantrymen of the Air is a complete account of the Royal Italian airborne forces during WW2: their origin, organization, training, and combat operations from 1936 to 1943. The battle accounts are supported by numerous maps and includes a section on the science of airborne operations.

'Passchendaele' has always been controversial. Responsibility for the failures of the first month has, since the publication of the Official History in 1948, has been concentrated on Hubert Gough, of Fifth Army, to the virtual exclusion of Haig. This book challenges that view and the account in the Official History.