Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History

Various (Autor)

Media-Kombination

8202 Seiten

2015
Routledge
978-1-138-90784-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This set, containing 27 volumes originally published between 1942 and 1990, provides a rich resource of scholarship on the history and strategy of the British Army and Navy, as well as in depth studies on particular British and European battles & campaigns, weapons and warfare and is authored by some of the leading experts in their field. Extensively illustrated with detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams, many of the volumes are both scholarly and entertaining . Filling gaps in neglected areas, the volumes include an outstanding biography of Frederick the Great; the first detailed account of the Invergordon mutiny based on the personal testimony of those involved on the lower deck; a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe and a unique photographic record of the British Expeditionary’s Force in World War One, to name but a few.

Inhalt

1. Military intervention in Britain : from the Gordon riots to the Gibraltar incident 2. Bonaparte 3. The evolution of modern land warfare : theory and practice 4. War and society : a yearbook of military history. Vol 1 5. War and society : a yearbook of military history. Vol 2 6. The Victorian Army and the Staff College, 1854-1914 7. A History of Firearms from earliest times to 1914 8. The fortress in the age of Vauban and Frederick the Great, 1660-1789 9. Frederick the Great : a military life 10. Russia's military way to the West : origins and nature of Russian military power 1700-1800 11. The Invergordon mutiny : a narrative history of the last great mutiny in the Royal Navy and how it forced Britain off the Gold Standard in 1931 12. The conduct of war, 1789-1961: a study of the impact of the French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions on war and its conduct 13. The plans of war. The General Staff and British military strategy, c. 1900-1916 14. Armies in Europe 15. The naval war in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918 16. The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages 17. Wellington's masterpiece: the battle and campaign of Salamanca 18. A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1805 to 1918 19. No more heroes : the Royal Navy in the twentieth century : anatomy of a legend 20. The Ordeal of Captain Roeder. From the diary of an officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards during the Moscow Campaign of 1812-13 21. The British Army of the eighteenth century 22. The Old Contemptibles : a photographic history of the British Expeditionary Force August to December 1914 23. Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! A life of Cardigan of Balaclava 24. The Cavalier army: its organisation and everyday life 25. A Guide to the Sources of British Military History 26. Tide of empires : decisive naval campaigns in the rise of the west / Vol.1, 1481-1654 27. Tide of empires : decisive naval campaigns in the rise of the west Vol.2, 1654-1763.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 453 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-138-90784-7 / 1138907847
• ISBN-13: 978-1-138-90784-3 / 9781138907843
• Zustand: Neuware