The first part of this book, A Peacetime Army Prepares for War, begins by describing the tensions that existed between British soldiers and the citizens of the American colonies, before examining the many and varied reasons why men chose to enlist, the training of new recruits and preparing them for war by practising the loading and firing of their flintlock muskets and how to maintain their formation during rapid movements. The second part, The Wartime Army, consists of x chapters, each of which covers a different aspect of the British Army’s experience during the American War. The first chapter, Evident Supremacy Even in Woods, describes how the troops adapted to war in America. The next deals with recruiting for the American War. The third describes the soldiers’ living conditions on transport ships to America, when quartered in towns and in the countryside on campaign. Then there is a chapter devoted to rations, disease and off-duty activities. The remaining chapters cover plundering,.. Read more
Arthur Harman, Miniature Wargames

"Certainly worth a read."
Despatches, the magazine of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides - Spring/Summer 2021 issue

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Friends of Cumbria Museum of Military Life

This new book is very ably supported by a great many maps and covers the military achievements of China. – Very Highly Recommended Read the full review [link=http://reviews.firetrench.com/from-the-first-recorded-battle-to-the-twenty-first-century-a-military-history-of-china/]here[/link]
Firetrench

The gallery of photos is a wonderful, interesting and truly crushing addition to the book. Showing the smiling happy duchesses and their family – all unaware of the horrible and awful fate that awaits them. It was a deep blow to put faces to the names and be hit with the deep sense of true loss and pain for what happened to Tatiana and her family. It’s very easy with history to lose touch with the fact that these people lived and breathed and had true and personal feelings. As an historian I find myself occasionally looking past the humanity of the figures I’m studying and think of them as characters rather than people… it’s good to be reminded through sources like this that that isn’t the case and these people lived and breathed, laughed and cried as we do. Read the full review [link=https://mysticreadsbookblogblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/tatiana-romanov-daughter-of-the-last-tsar-diaries-and-letters-1913-1918-book-review/]here[/link]
History in Petticoats, Kendal Elizabeth Parker