Queen Victoria's Wars. British Military Campaigns, 1857-1902, Hardback - ***

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand, and Africa, it traces the...

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of m...

Reducere. But engrossing as these small wars are--and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident--it is the officers and men who fought t...

This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fie...

Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means...

The Jacobite Wars is a detailed exploration of the Jacobite military campaigns of 1715 and 1745, set against the background of Scottish political, ...

DescriptionWhen the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied "to the strongest". There ensu...

The lives and mutually supportive friendship of Queen Ena (Victoria Eugenia), consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her cousin Bee, Infanta Be...

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters remained a close-knit family. Inevita...

Poison gas was one of the most fearful weapons of its day. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas ...

Reducere. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit...

Queen Victoria's dynastically tactical puppeteering of her thirty surviving grandchildren's love lives is revealed at its full extent in this inter...

Reducere. The career of Arthur Wellesley--the Sepoy GeneralWhen most people consider the military genius of the Duke of Wellington it is as the commander of ...

Reducere. Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use h...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Peter J. KeatIllustration(s): 90 photographs, illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Series XPublicat...

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrationsN...

Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever s...

Reducere. DescriptionA captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grand...

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece...

Compelling study of the British campaigns in India during the Napoleonic Wars. Focuses on the campaigns of Arthur Wellesley - later Duke of Welling...

Reducere. 'This admirable biography is a moving tribute to a prince who overcame much suffering, and it gives us a better understanding both of Victorian roy...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

Reducere. From the Introduction: What were the facets of Queen Victoria's character and position that resulted in her name encapsulating the values of an ent...

Covers the conquest of Wales and the First Scottish War of Independence, as well as campaigns on the Continent.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuth...

The true story of the fearsome Rani of Jhansi, the Indian Queen who took on the East India Trading Company in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal mother-daughter relationsh...

A chronicle of ten mid-Victorian trials that features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, an...

Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have descr...

Reducere. The New Zealand Wars, A History Of The Maori Campaigns And The Pioneering Period (Volume I) (1845-1864) has been considered by academicians and sch...

In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights? How did righ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the British Raj, then keep reading...The British presence in India lasted for nearly 350 years, ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the British Raj, then keep reading...The British presence in India lasted for nearly 350 years, ...

The Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066, changed the course of English history. This most famous moment of the Norman Conquest was record...

Reducere. "Gaslamp Fantasy, " or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike....

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The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): W T W Pot...

Reducere. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordabl...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Vicky ...

The first ever comprehensive history of British submarines before 1945, illustrated with superb photographs and many original plans.

The untold stories of the British talent behind the biggest movie of all time... In the sweltering heat wave of 1976, the filming of Star Wars was ...

Aden was a key British base East of Suez for over 100 years. The story of the British occupation and withdrawal has not been told in detail until n...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

The Royal Navy's battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods i...

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is intersperse...

Considers the training, weapons and fighting methods of the African warriors.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Chris PeersIllustration(s):...