Bøger i Musket to Maxim serien

Addressing a historical period so far mostly ignored, this new work provides some examples of the many interesting and talented officers who exercised command during the Victorian Era.

In the Portuguese Civil War of 1828-1834, commonly known in anglo-saxon sources as the War of the Two Brothers, almost half of the nations of Europe participated.

This is an unabridged translation of Theodor Fontane's Der deutsche Krieg von 1866, one of the most complete and celebrated histories of the Austro-Prussian War.

Sets out the multiple causes of the First Anglo-Afghan War; the initial British aims for honour and glory and its end in a humiliating British defeat.

This volume chronicles the conflict over the unification of Germany, which actually occurred on German soil. The campaign in southern and western Germany ensured that political control of German affairs would be firmly in Prussian hands, controlled by Bismarck, in much the same way that the great battles between Prussia and Austria in the east woul

In contrast to the existing biographies which treat Kitchener as British, the author of Kitchener: The Man, considers him an outsider within the British establishment. Of his 64 years, a mere 11, and those not consecutive, were spent in England. He learned from those around him, ways that were not always understood and appreciated by those educated