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| Publisher: PEN & SWORD |
| Publication Date: 01/02/2008 |
| Format: Hardback |
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‘Savage Wars of Peace’
‘An enthralling look at the Victorian Army in adversity.’ – BBC History Magazine
Between the Crimean War and the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in military operations throughout the Empire – famously characterised by Kipling as the ‘savage wars of peace’. In his new work on the most dramatic and disastrous of these Victorian campaigns Mike Snook, author of Like Wolves on the Fold, brings colonial warfare vividly to life.
Snook’s focus is on battles that went badly awry for the British, the names of which – Isandlwana, Maiwand, Majuba Hill, Khartoum, Colenso and Magersfontein – still resonate today. In this meticulously researched military history, he exposes the true and sometimes embarrassing causes of defeat: overstretch, political meddling, military incompetence and petty jealousy.
Above all, Into the Jaws of Death is a perceptive account of the men who struggled to deal with the overpowering dynamics and horrors of nineteenth-century warfare on the fringes of empire.
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