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Index
Cover Title Page Contents Introduction Dressed to Kill: The first uniforms of the English army From Rome to Roses: Britain’s wars from Julius Caesar to Richard III Roman Enemy at the Gates: Julius Caesar lands in Britain Vees-up for Victory: England’s warlike two-fingered salute Full Metal Jacket: An English knight and his armour ‘Vain and Silly…’: When Wellington met Nelson Resisting Rome: Boudicca’s war against the invading legions Sergeant-Major Gandhi: A great soul in the British Army The Rough Wooing and Other Wars: Britain’s conflicts from 1494 to 1713 Our Murderous Scallywags: The would-be guerrillas of Nazi Britain The Whites of their Eyes: The secret of close-order firing The Christmas Truce: When the guns stopped for a day Revolts to Revolutions: Britain’s wars in the 18th century England’s Last Battle: A historic exchange of fire on Graveney Marsh Latham of the Buffs: Defending the colour at the Battle of Albuera The British Soldier…: … as described by his superior officers and others Whose Blanket?: Abercromby and the Battle of Alexandria The Deadly Men of Gwent: Welsh archers in the fight against the English The Burning of Washington: British troops sack the US capital The Scabbard Discarded: American responses to the British invasion Few New Brits and Many Old Tashes: The fighting men of Waterloo The Doomed Belgrano: Life and death of a warship ‘By God, Sir, I’ve Lost My Leg…’: Lord Uxbridge’s heroic misfortune at Waterloo The Quickest Way to End a War…: Some writers and military men on the business of war ‘You Cannot Conquer America’: The impossible-to-win War of Independence The Face of Kitchener: Harvesting volunteers for the trenches The Flagstaff Affair: The absurd casus belli of the Maori War The Face of the Enemy: British soldiers and others pay their respects to their opponents Zeppelins and Other Outrages: The first inklings of total war Britain’s Wars in the 19th Century: All the wars that Britain engaged in during the century of empire First Fishguard, then the World: The final, farcical invasion of Britain Whipping and Flogging: Crime and punishment in the ranks The Four-Day Fight and Other Battles: The naval war against the Dutch After Rorke’s Drift: In the wake of the battle Rabid Wolfe: The madness of a fine general Bobbie the Mongrel, the Courageous Mascot: How a regimental pet fought like a trooper The Kindness of Nazis: Douglas Bader and the Luftwaffe Bloody Richard and Talbot the Terrible: The antiheroes of England’s wars ‘In Flanders’ Field…’: The poem that spawned a sacred tradition Dirty Tricks at Stamford Bridge: The other invasion of 1066 Britain’s Briefest War: The Anglo-Zanzibar conflict WCs and Devil’s Chariots: How the tank got its name, and first saw action False Craters: How Argentinian troops fooled the RAF Duck and Dash: The unorthodox tactics of the 42nd Highlanders Some Martial Firsts…: Pioneering moments in the history of battle … And Some Lasts: Final bows in war and battle Carrots: the RAF’s Secret Weapon: The role of root vegetables in the battle for the skies Top Brass: Rank and seniority in the British armed forces His Majesty the General: George II at the Battle of Dettingen The March of the Sheep: Keeping livestock from the enemy LAM to the Slaughter: Bad inventions for the RAF The King’s Shilling: Army pay down the centuries The Songs of the Trenches: Verse and worse in the mud of Flanders The Phoney War: Total war with no fighting at all Britain’s Wars in the 20th Century: Wars and conflicts between 1900 and 1999 Bagpipes in Battle: Scotland’s aural machine-gun Jenkins’s Belligerent Ear: How the abuse of a sea captain caused a long-lasting war Fix Bayonets!: The British army’s love of cold steel A Black Week in Boer Country: Three military disasters in South Africa Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Churchill’s wartime speeches Slaves of War: The soldiers bought at market The Number of the Few: Some Battle of Britain statistics Chums on the Somme: The pals’ battalions Gallant She-Soldiers: Fighting women of the 18th century Nothing But a Miracle: The Dunkirk evacuation The Maid of Orleans: Joan of Arc and her war against the English Naming of Parts: Poets of the Second World War Not The Hundred Years War: Changing fortunes over a century and more Hobart’s Funnies: The crazy but deadly tanks of D-Day The Last Hour of the Great War: Death and sadness on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 Richard, the Cruel Crusader: Barbarity and mass murder in the Third Crusade Britain’s Wars since the Millennium: Armed conflict involving British forces in the 21st century More Amazing Titles Picture credits Acknowledgments Dedication Copyright
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