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Includes full details of all forms of dress worn by officers, with descriptions of helmet plates, cap badges, buttons, collar badges, waist belt plates and pouches. All branches of the service are covered. Many tipped-in and hand written amendments have in 1938 been painstakingly incorporated to the original copy of this title, which was sourced for reprinting from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Prussia's ruthless campaign to unite Germany under its leadership led to a short, sharp victorious war against Austria and her German allies in 1866. This lecture, by noted military historian Captain Henry Brackenbury, describes the shock tactics used by the Prussians in defeating the armies of Hanover which were about to be visited on France in the Franco-Prussian War.

Red Dust is the vivid account of the experiences of an Australian Light Horseman in the Palestinian campaign against the Turks at the end of the Great War. A classic military memoir of a neglected conflict, the original edition of this book is very rare, but it is a must for anyone interested in the Middle East theatre of the war.

The story of Major John Andre is one of the most dramatic and tragic in America's War of Independence. An adjutant on the Staff of Britain's General William Howe in Philadelphia, Major Andre was an unsuccessful suitor for the hand of Peggy Shippen, daughter of a prominent Philadelphia Loyalist. He kept in touch with the Shippen's after Peggy married Benedict Arnold, one of the most successful American Generals, who had become embittered after enemies on his own side falsely accused him of embezzlement. Under Peggy's influence, Arnold decided to switch sides and hand West Point Fort over to the British - with Andre acting as his contact man. Andre was arrested carrying papers incriminating Arnold, who was forced to flee to a British ship, narrowly evading George Washington's attempt to arrest him. Andre was tried as a spy, condemned and hanged. (His body was later buried with full honours in London's Westminster Cathedral). Arnold and Peggy lived in London for the rest of their lives - his name is execrated in America as the epitome of treason. The author of this 1808 'authentic narrative' of the story, Joshua Hett Smith, an American lawyer was present when Andre was arrested and charged as his accomplice, but acquitted. His book, therefore, is an invaluable eye-witness account of one of the most dramatic events in US history and will enthral anyone with an interest in the War of Independence.

Although there are many accounts of the Peninsular War by fighting men, this book is justly famed because it is a rarity: a memoir dictated by a ranker in Sir John Moore's army. At a time when many members of his class were illiterate, Benjamin Harris, a 'Dorsetshire sheep-boy' serving in the 95th Regiment of Foot from 1803 conveys the hard life of an old sweat fighting both the French and the Iberian climate in lively and vivid prose. Harris records the sicknesses and medicines suffered by ordinary soldiers; recounts the savage punishment of a fellow Rifleman, and the cut and thrust of military life from a distinctly worm's eye view, giving invaluable insights into the life of an ordinary soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The book's editor, Henry Curling, persuaded Harris to recount his memoirs when he met him while Harris was working as a London cobbler in the 1830s. First published in 1848, this memoir remains one of the most valuable documents to have come down to us from the early Peninsular War.

The Battle of Gravelotte - St. Privat, fought on August 18th - came early in the Franco-Prussian War and, although a Pyrrhic victory for the Prussians (their casualties were more than twice those of the French) - proved a strategic victory from which the French never recovered. Fought just west of the fortress city of Metz in Lorraine it followed a defeat inflicted on France the previous day at Mars-le-Tour, and was the final vindication of the tactics used by the brilliantly ruthless German C-in-C Field Marshal Hellmuth Von Moltke whose battle strategy if the subject of this absorbing book. The Prussian First and Second Armies, numbering 188,332 and equipped with 732 heavy cannon, outnumbered and outgunned their opponents in the French Army of the Rhine commanded by the brave but inept and unlucky Marshal Achille Bazaine. The French numbered some 112,800 and had the advantage of a strong defensive position above a ravine which they had spent the night entrenching and strengthening. Despite this, the Prussians launched repeated attacks across the ravine. Pinned down by merciless fire from the superior French Chassepot rifles, the Prussians responded with their Krupp heavy guns. Although the armies finished the battle exhausted and in stalemate, with the Prussians having casualties of 20,000 against French losses of less than half that number, the strategic victory was Moltke's since he had blocked the French retreat to the fortress town of Verdun and the next day Bazaine fell back to Metz, where he remained bottled up and unable to take further part in the war: a dereliction of duty for which he was later court-martialled and imprisoned - finally escaping to die in impoverished exile in Spain.

The battles of Columbey-Nouilly (14th August 1870) and Vionville fought two days later were part of the opening campaign of the Franco-Prssian War that saw grossly outnumbered Prussian forces compel the French to retire to the fortress of Metz, where they sat out the rest of the war. This book tells us how and why the Prussians won against all the odds.

The author of this vivid and valuable collection of reports from inside besieged Paris in the Franco-Prussian War was the colourful Victorian and Edwardian journalist, entrepreneur and politician Henry Labouchère (1831-1912). 'Labby' as he was known, had a triple career as a Liberal MP, a muck-raking editor and the owner of a London theatre which showcased his actress mistress Henrietta Hudson as its star. During a break in his political career (caused by his ungrateful electors voting him out) 'Labby' covered the Siege of Paris as correspondent for the Daily News. His eye-witness descriptions of the city and the privations of its starving inhabitants are among the best-known reports of an early war correspondent. After his return to Parliament, Labby authored a Parliamentary amendment outlawing male homosexuality - under which Oscar Wilde was jailed.

The appearance of this little book in the inauspicious year of 1915 is no coincidence. To British ears, 'Turkey' and '1915' mean one thing: the disaster of Gallipoli, when this book was rushed out so that British officers could know their enemy. It notes that the Ottoman army was in chaos after its defeat by the Christian Balkan states and the Young Turk revolution. However, it recognises that the Young Turks have carried out a thorough reform with the aid of their special German advisor, General Liman von Sanders. A tone of healthy respect is therefore maintained, fully justified by the Turks' resistance in the Gallipoli campaign. The whole organisation of the Turkish army is described, with sections on infantry, cavalry, artillery, uniforms, machine guns, Transport and engineering; reserves, ranks and titles, rationing, foraging and decorations. There are also notes on religion, police, the civil population, money, distance and time, and a glossary of Turkish words.

Flooding, or in military terminology 'inundation', formed part of the Belgian defence plan, and in the first three months of the war inundations were formed at Antwerp in accordance with that plan and had some success in interfering with the German advance. The opening of the sea gates at Nieuport, which allowed the tides to flood the country between Nieuport and Dixmude covered the main defensive line in the coastal area right up to the German retreat in 1918. This book provides an account of the use of inundations by the BEF or preparations for their use at the time of the German advance in 1918. It also describes the German use of inundations. For the benefit of the Royal Engineers it gives advice on the information required for forecasting inundations and it lists a number of deductions on their use drawn from the experience of 1914-18. The map is of the Western Front from the North sea down to the Oise (south of St Quentin) illustrating inundation schemes.

Rapid Training of a Company For War was intended to be used by the junior officers in Kitchener's New Army to bring raw recruits efficiently, and in the shortest time available, to be physically fit and able to march and fight.

This fully comprehensive study of the Luftwaffe's supply organisation in the Second World War is based on Allied Intelligence and papers captured from the Germans themselves at the end of the war. It was compiled in the teeth of severe difficulties at the war's end: many Luftwaffe depots had been wrecked and looted by starving refugees; several senior Luftwaffe personnel were in the American occupation zone and were being rapidly released. Despite all the difficulties, the job was done and this book is the most complete picture of the organisation of the Nazi Luftwaffe in existence. It contains chapters on how the Luftwaffe fitted into the overall Supreme command of the German armed forces; on Speer's Armaments Ministry and war production; on Goering's Air Ministry; and how supplies were organised in the field. There are detailed sections on Production and provisioning; Financial control; Selection and training of Luftwaffe supply staff; transport; repair and salvage; the eastern front and identification of equipment - together with original German charts of chains of command. For any serious Luftwaffe enthusiast - this book is simply a must.