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The British Army - A New Short History (Hardcover, 1)
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The British Army - A New Short History (Hardcover, 1)
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List price R591
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late
seventeenth century to the present. This new concise history by one
of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army
from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth
century to the present. It sets the institutional development of
the British army, and its often ambiguous relationship with state
and society, as well as the army's wider political, social,
economic, and cultural role within international, imperial,
national, regional, and local contexts. An army exists to fight,
however, and the British army's story cannot be separated from
those wars and conflicts that have punctuated its evolution.
Consequently, attention is also paid to the army's commanders,
operations, and battlefields from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in
the seventeenth century to Iraq and Afghanistan in the
twenty-first. Beckett traces the army's evolution through five
chronological phases: the standing army of the seventeenth century
and its antecedents, the national army of the eighteenth century,
the imperial army of the nineteenth century, the people's army of
the two world wars, the era of national service, and the return to
a small professional army fulfilling a global role envisaged by
successive governments in the twenty-first century at a time of
rapidly changing social attitudes towards the utility of force,
that pose a challenge to the army's traditional core values.
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