Ancient and Medieval warfare : Small islands with lots of clout -- Swords, sandals, and geometry: the Romans -- Arthur, Alfred, and Aethelstan: the Dark Ages -- The hard knight's day: the Norman Conquest and Medieval period. The arrival of gunpowder : With pike and shot: Renaissance warfare -- Hearties versus gloomies: the civil wars -- Founding a regular army: the late seventeenth century. Wars of succession, independence, and revolution : O'er the hills and far away: Marlborough country and beyond -- Risings and rebellions: Jacobites and Americans -- Revolting Frenchmen, the Grand Old Duke, and Boney: the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars -- Wellington boots the French out: the peninsula to Waterloo. Nineteenth-century wars : Britain's little wars: imperial expansion -- Helping Turkey fight the bear: the Crimean War -- Rebels, rajahs, and a rani: the Indian Mutiny -- Home and away: reorganisation, re-equipment, and more trouble in India -- Boots, boots, boots, boots: marchin' over Africa.
The First World War : 'Hangin' on the old barbed wire': the Western Front, 1914-1917 -- Storm troopers and tank attacks: the Western Front, 1918 -- Turkey with all the trimmings: the Middle East and beyond, 1914-1918. The Second World War (and beyond) : Phoney war, panzers, and miracles: the outbreak of the Second World War -- Sun, sand, sea, and tanks: the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1943 -- One bloomin' ridge after another: the Italian campaign, 1943-1945 -- Beachheads and bridges: Normandy and Northwest Europe, 1944-1945 -- Welcome to the Jungle: the Far East, 1941-1945 -- Around the world in 60 years: operations 1945-2006. The part of tens : Ten great British generals -- Ten decisive battles in British military history -- Ten British military museums worth visiting.
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