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Author:   Prof Ian Beckett
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hambledon Continuum
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781852855109

ISBN 10:   185285510
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   23 June 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Reputations 1 An English Confederacy 2 Cleansing the East with Steel 3 The Hand on the Throttle 4 The Devil's Pass 5 The Race for the Peerage 6 Paths of Duty 7 Doing a Billy Hicks 8 The Excitement with Railway Carriages 9 War, Truth and History Part Two: Generals and Politicians 10 Command in South Africa 11 Islands in the Sun 12 Cavagnari's Coup de Main 13 Chelmsford's Major-Generals 14 Stanhope's Storehouses 15 One and a Half Battalions 16 The Improbable Probability Part Three: Ways of War 17 The First Modern War? 18 War, Technology and Change 19 'Troopin' 20 A Frenchman's Horse 21 A Question of Totality 22 No End of a Lesson Notes Bibliographical Note Index

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. ..despite some thought-provoking and insightful analysis, The Victorians at War is a missed opportunity. Beckett has assembled a large corpus of material that could have been fashioned into a major and welcome analysis on the politics of command in the Victorian army. Moreover, it could have taken the debate forward by providing a useful counterfoil to Edward M. Spiers's The Late Victorian Army, 1868-1902 (1992). This book instead remains a collection of essays that needed more editorial care and closer linkages. Despite the modern advances in electronic publishing, the book is littered with spelling mistakes and typographical errors. Some unnecessary repetition signals that despite the claim that many of the chapters were substantially rewritten, they may have been done so in haste however enjoyable they are to read. - Kent Fedorowich, Victorian Studies, Winter 2008

Author Information

Ian Beckett is Professor of History at the University of Northampton and Chairman of the Army Records Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has taught in both in Britain and the United States. His publications include Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 (2004) and The Great War, 1914-1918 (2001).

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