This selection of campaign photographs shows the Victorian army in a variety of climes and conditions over 50 years from Burma in 1852 to Tibet in 1904. It also records the vital yet often neglected role played by the army in the great Victorian imperial adventure.
About the author
Ian Beckett, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is Major General Matthew C. Horner Professor of Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, USA.
Other titles for Shire by this author are:
Buckinghamshire
Discovering British Regimental Traditions
Discovering English County Regiments
- ISBN10 0747803889
- ISBN13 9780747803881
- Publish Date 1 August 1998 (first published 1 November 1974)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 June 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Shire Publications
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English