Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland
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Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland by Richard Brooks
There have been a number of British battle books before, but never one as comprehensive, as scholarly - and as readable - as this. The meat of the volume is its 377 'battle articles' - from the skirmish between Caesar's invading Romans at Dover in 55BC, to the air battles fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe above southern England in the late summer of 1940. These articles are underpinned by a wealth of additional material, both editorial and graphic, including for each battle a 'scoreboard' boxed panel of key data, including details of protagonists, size of armies involved, commanders and casualties. The volume includes 100 maps of key battles. OS grid references are provided for every battle described. Each chapter commences with an overview essay, outlining and explaining the key strategic developments of the period of warfare in question. Within each (major section), sub-sections identify logically related groups of battles (such as, in Knight and Castle, the era known as the Anarchy (during the reign of Stephen) and the conflict known as the Scottish War of Independence).
'A quality addition to your bookshelf' SOLDIER magazine 'An impressive collection that offers much.. accurate and... fascinating.' -- Jeremy Black HISTORY TODAY 'A gripping and immensely readable work of narrative history.' THE GUNNER 'well written, comprehensive, clear and readable... I strongly recommend this book to any battlefield tourer of the British Isles.' -- John Deverell BRITISH ARMY REVIEW
Richard Brooks is a freelance military historian. His most recent book was The Royal Marines - 1664 to the Present (Constable 2002), which won an award from the Royal Marines Historical Society. He has also written The Long Arm of the Empire: Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion (Constable 1999), a study of the Royal Navy's part in small wars of the Victorian period, and the first biography of the founder of Jane's Fighting Ships: Fred T Jane: An Eccentric Visionary (Jane's Information Group 1997). He was Consultant Editor of the Times History of War (Harper Collins Publishers 2000). Richard Brooks was born in Kent, in 1949, and read Modern History at St Edmund Hall Oxford and International Relations at Southampton University. He lives in Southsea with his wife, two daughters and several thousand toy soldiers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780304363339 |
| ISBN 10 | 0304363332 |
| Title | Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland |
| Author | Richard Brooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2005-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 754 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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