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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 - AT WAR WITH FRANCE
LEAVING FOR WAR: EMOTIONAL AND JOYOUS FAREWELLS
UNDIMMED PATRIOTISM: TOTAL BELIEF IN THE CAUSE
A SOLDIER’S LOT: DAILY SLOG AND HARDSHIPS
THE GRIM REALITY OF BATTLE: MUSKETS, MISERY AND MORTALITY
LAST LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
MAJOR ARTHUR ROWLEY HEYLAND Killed at Waterloo, 18 June 1815
ENSIGN THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL S. BARRINGTON Killed at Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815
CORPORAL JOHN CULLEY Survived
LIEUTENANT CARL THEODOR KÖRNER Killed at Leipzig, 25 August 1813
PRIVATE CHARLES STANLEY Killed at Waterloo, 18 June 1815
2 - THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE DECLARATION OF WAR: CELEBRATION AND DUTY
BLOODY REVOLUTION: A NEW WARFARE
A SOLDIER’S LIFE: BELIEF, STOICISM, DUTY
FAREWELL LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
MAJOR SULLIVAN BALLOU Killed in the First Battle of Bull Run, 28 July 1861
SECOND LIEUTENANT IRA P. WOODRUFF Killed in the Battle of Seven Pines, 31 May 1862
CAPTAIN JAMES E. REARDEN Killed at Chickamauga, 26 September 1863
COLONEL THORNTON FLEMING BRODHEAD Killed in the Second Battle of Bull Run, 2 September 1862
GALUTIA YORK Died 14 May 1863
SHEPHERD GREEN PRYOR Survived
3 - THE ANGLO-ZULU WAR
THE START OF WAR: CONFIDENCE AND JINGOISM
THE REALITY OF WAR: HARSH CONDITIONS, HARSHER ENEMY
BATTLE HARDENED: SINKING MORALE AND GROWING CRITICISM
LAST LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL LOUIS NAPOLEON Killed near Ityotyozi River, 1 June 1879
PRIVATE FRANCIS HORATIO WARD Survived
PRIVATE ASHLEY GOATHAM Killed at Isandlwana, 22 January 1879
PRIVATE GEORGE MORRIS Killed at Isandlwana, 22 January 1879
PRIVATE HENRY MOSES Survived
SAPPER H. CUTHBERT Killed at Isandlwana, 22 January 1879
4 - THE BOER WAR
THE BUILD-UP TO WAR: PATRIOTISM AND ADVENTURE
THE REALITY OF WAR: SHOCK OF THE UNEXPECTED
LAST LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
SAPPER JOHN BLYTH Died 13 June 1900
LIEUTENANT PETER JOSEPH HANDCOCK Executed at Pretoria Gaol, 27 February 1902
FIELD MARSHAL JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS Survived
PRIVATE EDGAR HALLETT Died at Bloemfontein, 10 June 1900
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN EMERSON WHARTON HEADLAM Survived
SERGEANT MAJOR ROBERT CORNELIUS GIFFORD Wounded at Pieter’s Station, 18 February 1900
PRIVATE JAMES COULTER Died at Bloemfontein, 18 May 1900
CORPORAL RODNEY DEVEREUX Killed at Rietfontein, 29 November 1900
RODNEY DEVEREUX (One of the Best)
5 - THE GREAT WAR
ENLISTING: PASSION AND DUTY
THE CHANGING TIDE: DWINDLING ENTHUSIASM
LAST LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
CAPTAIN ERIC FOX PITT LUBBOCK Killed at Ypres, 11 March 1917
SECOND LIEUTENANT ERIC RUPERT HEATON Killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916
PRIVATE ALEXANDER WUTTUNEE DECOTEAU Killed in the Battle of Passchendaele, 30 October 1917
PRIVATE GEORGE HENRY DAVIES Killed at Messines, 12 July 1917
OTTO HEINEBACH Killed in the Battle of Verdun, 14 September 1916
LIEUTENANT GIOSUÈ BORSI Killed in the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo, 10 November 1915
DRIVER WILLIAM ROBERT JONES Killed in South Africa en route home, 7 June 1919
SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARCLAY BINNING Died in Belgium, 24 April 1916
6 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR
MOBILISATION: A UNIVERSAL WAR EFFORT
THE TOLL OF SUSTAINED WAR: CONDITIONS AND REALITIES
THE ENEMY AND THE REASONS FOR WAR
ADIEU TO THE STIFF UPPER LIP
FAREWELL LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
PRIVATE LESLIE ABRAM NEUFELD Killed at Varaville, D-Day, 6 June 1944
LIEUTENANT GEORGE F. MORRISON Killed at El Alamein, 24 October 1942
CAPTAIN FRIEDRICH SPEMANN Survived
SERGEANT GOULDEN OLIVER ‘BOY’ WEBSTER Killed over Berlin, 20 November 1940
CAPTAIN MASANOBU KUNO Killed 24 May 1945
MAJOR LIONEL WIGRAM Killed in Italy, 3 February 1944
PRIVATE EUGENE M. COURTRIGHT Died at Iwo Jima, 18 March 1945
PILOT OFFICER MICHAEL ANDREW SCOTT Killed over the English Channel, 24 May 1941
7 - THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT
HOPE FOR A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION AND THE VOYAGE TO WAR
A REAL CONFLICT: BATTLE CONDITIONS AND THE ‘BLUEY’ LIFELINE
THE FIRST HIGH-TECH WAR: LAND, AIR AND SEA
SURRENDER AND HOMECOMING
FAREWELL LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GLEN ROBINSON-MOLTKE Killed 25 May 1982
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER DAVID MORGAN Survived
LIEUTENANT COLONEL HERBERT ‘H’ JONES VC, OBE Killed at Goose Green, 28 May 1982
PETTY OFFICER CHRIS HOWE Survived
PRIVATE JOSÉ ANTONIO SCAGLIA Survived
8 - CONFLICTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
THE PROSPECT OF WAR
CHANGING ATTITUDES TO WAR
LIVING CONDITIONS AND MORALE
WARFARE AND PEACEKEEPING A TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WAR
FAREWELL LETTERS: COMMON THEMES
GUNNER LEE THORNTON Killed in Iraq, 7 September 2006
PFC JESSE GIVENS Killed in Iraq, 1 May 2003
KINGSMAN JAMIE HANCOCK Killed in Iraq, 6 November 2006
GUARDSMAN NEIL ‘TONY’ DOWNES Killed in Afghanistan, 9 June 2007
MAJOR ANDREW OLMSTED Killed in Iraq, 3 January 2008
PICTURE CREDITS FOR PLATES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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