Readers who are keen to broaden their understanding of the Crimean War and of the British army of the period will gain a critical insight through the variety of books we publish on the subject.
Memoirs and letters written by soldiers who took part provide graphic first-hand accounts of the campaign, and biographies and reassessments of key battles are essential reading for students of the Crimea and of nineteenth-century warfare in general.
"The book's strength resides in the variety of excerpts from British letters, clippings, and journals, with occasional interspersed Russian and French source material. You get a real sense of the miserable conditions of the front-line soldiers and the horrors of the logistical systems."
Click [link=https://www.hmgs.org/blogpost/1779451/366828/BOOK-REVIEW-Conflict-in-the-Crimea-British-Redcoats-on-Russian-Soil ]here[/link] for the full review
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
"The book's strength resides in the variety of excerpts from British letters, clippings, and journals, with occasional interspersed Russian and French source material. You get a real sense of the miserable conditions of the front-line soldiers and the horrors of the logistical systems."
Click [link=https://www.hmgs.org/blogpost/1779451/366828/BOOK-REVIEW-Conflict-in-the-Crimea-British-Redcoats-on-Russian-Soil ]here[/link] for the full review
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
This is an amazing collection of superb photograophs beginning with some from the Crimean War - coupled with a brilliant narrative that emphasises the use of photography to record conflict. Where would we be without such evidentiary mementoes?
Books Monthly
This is an amazing collection of superb photograophs beginning with some from the Crimean War - coupled with a brilliant narrative that emphasises the use of photography to record conflict. Where would we be without such evidentiary mementoes?
Books Monthly
This book undoubtedly offers the ideal starting point for an analysis of Victoria Cross and of reference of the British military history of the last 150 years.
Read the full Italian review [link=https://oldbarbedwire.blogspot.com/2019/08/uncommon-valour-story-of-victoria-cross.html]here[/link]
Old Barbed Wire Blog
This book undoubtedly offers the ideal starting point for an analysis of Victoria Cross and of reference of the British military history of the last 150 years.
Read the full Italian review [link=https://oldbarbedwire.blogspot.com/2019/08/uncommon-valour-story-of-victoria-cross.html]here[/link]
Old Barbed Wire Blog
James W Bancroft is to be congratulated on such a painstaking and meticulously researched book which is bound to be the definitive book on this campaign.
Click [link=http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=4439]here[/link] to read the full review.
Salford Star, 7th April 2018 - reviewed by Tony Flynn
James W Bancroft is to be congratulated on such a painstaking and meticulously researched book which is bound to be the definitive book on this campaign.
Click [link=http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=4439]here[/link] to read the full review.
Salford Star, 7th April 2018 - reviewed by Tony Flynn
The book is a labor of love. Each chapter describes a battle of action, includes maps pointing out locations and then contrasts period illustrations with a view from the same angle today. It is fascinating how the terrain here has changed in a little over a hundred years. More trees and orchards change the look of many battlefields. The river Alma has also changed greatly as shown in the pictures today. The viewer also gets a better idea of the terrain. The hill that the Light Division rushed up to capture the great redoubt looks very gentle compared to some prints. The area the 93rd Highlanders held, and the area the Heavy Brigade charged have me better understanding of this actions. A mystery to me has been the photographs taken by Colonel Vladislav Klembovsky in 1900 of the battlefields. I finally know who this man was and his tragic story during the revolution. The book is not cheep,but is well worth it. Highly recommended! Read the complete review [link=http://bravefusiliers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/]here.[/link]
bravefusiliers.blogspot.co.uk
The book is a labor of love. Each chapter describes a battle of action, includes maps pointing out locations and then contrasts period illustrations with a view from the same angle today. It is fascinating how the terrain here has changed in a little over a hundred years. More trees and orchards change the look of many battlefields. The river Alma has also changed greatly as shown in the pictures today. The viewer also gets a better idea of the terrain. The hill that the Light Division rushed up to capture the great redoubt looks very gentle compared to some prints. The area the 93rd Highlanders held, and the area the Heavy Brigade charged have me better understanding of this actions. A mystery to me has been the photographs taken by Colonel Vladislav Klembovsky in 1900 of the battlefields. I finally know who this man was and his tragic story during the revolution. The book is not cheep,but is well worth it. Highly recommended! Read the complete review [link=http://bravefusiliers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/]here.[/link]
bravefusiliers.blogspot.co.uk
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Into the Jaws of Death
Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the 20th century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the 'savage wars of peace'. In his new work on the most dramatic Victorian campaigns Mike Snook bring's the most dramatic clashes of the age of… Read more...
