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Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland Hardcover – 20 Oct 2005
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'A quality addition to your bookshelf' (SOLDIER magazine)'An impressive collection that offers much.... accurate and... fascinating.' (Jeremy Black HISTORY TODAY)'A gripping and immensely readable work of narrative history.' (THE GUNNER)'well written, comprehensive, clear and readable... I strongly recommend this book to any battlefield tourer of the British Isles.' (John Deverell BRITISH ARMY REVIEW)
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There have been a number of British battle books before, but never one as comprehensive, as scholarly - and as readable - as this. The meat of the volume is its 377 'battle articles' - from the skirmish between Caesar's invading Romans at Dover in 55BC, to the air battles fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe above southern England in the late summer of 1940. These articles are underpinned by a wealth of additional material, both editorial and graphic, including for each battle a 'scoreboard' boxed panel of key data, including details of protagonists, size of armies involved, commanders and casualties. The volume includes 100 maps of key battles. OS grid references are provided for every battle described. Each chapter commences with an overview essay, outlining and explaining the key strategic developments of the period of warfare in question. Within each (major section), sub-sections identify logically related groups of battles (such as, in Knight and Castle, the era known as the Anarchy (during the reign of Stephen) and the conflict known as the Scottish War of Independence).
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Richard Brooks is a freelance military historian. His most recent book was The Royal Marines - 1664 to the Present (Constable 2002), which won an award from the Royal Marines Historical Society. He has also written The Long Arm of the Empire: Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion (Constable 1999), a study of the Royal Navy's part in small wars of the Victorian period, and the first biography of the founder of Jane's Fighting Ships: Fred T Jane: An Eccentric Visionary (Jane's Information Group 1997). He was Consultant Editor of the Times History of War (Harper Collins Publishers 2000). Richard Brooks was born in Kent, in 1949, and read Modern History at St Edmund Hall Oxford and International Relations at Southampton University. He lives in Southsea with his wife, two daughters and several thousand toy soldiers.
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V**V
Battlefield heaven
It contained new battlefield sites I had not seen before,and I have read lots of UK battlefield books,Richard Brooks had a new slant on some sites and that was interesting,very heavyly recomended if you enjoy reading about battles this book in the top lot
S**N
Four Stars
Good wide ranging summary.
A**N
All you will ever need to know on the subject
As a lifelong devotee, I bought this for my battle-mad seven-year-old son at Christmas, with the plan of reading battles to him at night all the way through British history from Julius Caesar to 1941 - OK, so we're strange.Eight months on, he is eight years old now and we are still only at Bannockburn. This is testament to several things about this book: it is extraordinarly comprehensive and detailed, it is very long and it is, if truth be told, rather hard going at times.However, you will certainly not need another general book on the subject in the foreseeable future; this covers everything, down to those battles whose dates, locations and existence are uncertain and from previous knowledge I have not found anything to quibble with. It's not for everyone and its knowledge of the political context is less sure, but for military detail it can't be beaten.
M**Y
If you have one book on British Battles, it should be this one
Cassell's Battlefields of Britain & Ireland is subtitled as a uniquely comprehensive survey of military actions fought on British and Irish soil. As yet another book about battlefields, I was somewhat sceptical. However, this book is different from its many, many predecessors.First the book is comprehensive in covering actions in, above and adjacent to Britai. The descriptions of the battles are excellent, interesting enough outlining what we do and do not know about particular battles. Smurthwaite's guide (The Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain, with ordnance survey maps), confidently outlines deployments on maps for battles where the rest of my history books clearly state the battlefield is unknown and the forces involved are only projected.The book also has many quotes from contemporary sources, some interesting material on the strategic and political overview of the period in question and a number of other useful bits.If a wargamer has one book on British Battlefields, this should be it.John Curry, History of Wargaming Project
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Richard Brooks is a freelance military historian. His most recent book was The Royal Marines - 1664 to the Present (Constable 2002), which won an award from the Royal Marines Historical Society. He has also written The Long Arm of the Empire: Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion (Constable 1999), a study of the Royal Navy's part in small wars of the Victorian period, and the first biography of the founder of Jane's Fighting Ships: Fred T Jane: An Eccentric Visionary (Jane's Information Group 1997). He was Consultant Editor of the Times History of War (Harper Collins Publishers 2000). Richard Brooks was born in Kent, in 1949, and read Modern History at St Edmund Hall Oxford and International Relations at Southampton University. He lives in Southsea with his wife, two daughters and several thousand toy soldiers.\n \n
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