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The Chameleon and the Fly
The AmaNdebele War was part of the expansion of the British Empire in Africa in the late Nineteenth Century and part of Cecil Rhodes' plan to expand two Empires: his own through …
Hungary 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence was one of the largest European conflicts of the 19th century, lasting a year, encompassing a dozen major battles and many smaller actions and …
More Work Than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1865-1916
Prior to the 1960s, the term "Buffalo Soldier" was a fairly obscure one. Then, a trickle of titles became a torrent of books, articles, novels, monuments, and expanding numbers of …
Controlling the Frontier
In this concise and engaging book, historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa's Cape Colony in the aftermath of the …
The Spioenkop Campaign
After the defeat at Colenso, the Natal Field Force under General Buller needed to break through the Boer lines and relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith. Buller's army marched …
Canadians on the Veldt
The story of Canada in the South African War is a complex one. How it even came about that the Canadian Government agreed to the dispatch of troops has its many talking …
Sedan to Saarbruck: the Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 1
The Franco-German War of 1870-71 saw the demise of one empire, that of Napoleon III and the birth of another, a German empire under the rule of the king of Prussia. Many books have …
The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 3
This work, the third in a new four volume series, takes a fresh and in depth look at the events of the opening months of the Franco Prussian War between Napoleon's Imperial Army …
Kitchener: The Man Not the Myth
In contrast to the existing biographies which treat Kitchener as British, the author of Kitchener: The Man Not the Myth, considers him an outsider within the British establishment. …
The Honved War
In September 1848 on behalf of the Austrian Kaiser, his Croatian Viceroy declared war on the King of Hungary, precipitating one of the largest and bloodiest European conflicts of …
Russian Campaigns in Central Asia
Russian Campaigns in Central Asia reprints two rare translations of Russian-language works covering the 1839 and 1873 campaigns in what is now Uzbekistan, originally issued in …
Line in the Sand
The book gives an overview of the French conquest of Morocco between 1900 and 1926.While providing a general outline of the conquest of Morocco the book concentrates on the use of …