Book Description
A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
Author : Paul Cowan
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
Author : Andy King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004229825
In England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513, Andy King and David Simpkin bring together new perspectives on the Anglo-Scottish conflict from Dunbar to Flodden. The essays focus on the military history of the wars from both sides of the border.
Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 178429215X
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crécy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.
Author : Paul Cowan
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781896124100
The Scots in Canada made their mark as explorers, fur traders, soldiers, business leaders, prime ministers and more. Ex-pat Paul Cowan marks their journey from his native land to the New World.
Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0802779824
An account of the mid-19th-century war in Afghanistan documents how the British government sought to protect regional interests by attempting to install a puppet ruler only to be defeated by united Afghanistan tribes, in a volume that profiles key contributors and discusses how the war set the stage for subsequent hostilities.
Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781526786500
Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states. He narrates in detail the events following the exiled King Charles II's landing in Scotland and his alliance with the Scots Covenanters, erstwhile allies of the English Parliamentarians. Cromwell's preemptive invasion of Scotland led to the Battle of Dunbar, a crushing defeat for the Scots under David Leslie, though this only unified the Scottish cause and led to the levying of the Army of the Kingdom under Charles II himself. Charles II led a desperate counter-invasion over the border, hoping to raise a royalist rebellion and forcing Cromwell to follow him, though he left Monck to complete the pacification of Scotland. Cromwell caught up with Charles II at Worcester, where the Scots/Royalist army was decisively defeated and destroyed, thousands of the prisoners being sold into slavery in the West Indies and the American colonies. This revised and updated edition contains an expanded chapter on the aftermath of the war and the fate of the POWs, drawing on major new archaeological evidence, as well as an expanded Conclusion.
Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107030951
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Author : Peter Reese
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0857905821
In the breadth of bitter-sweet Scottish history there is no more poignant, not more important, battle than Flodden. Before Scotland's disastrous defeat at the hands of the English under the Earl of Surrey, a proud country under its dynamic Stewart king, James IV, was emerging as a distinct and flourishing nation within Europe. With defeat the inevitability of Scotland's Reformation and union with England is hard to deny. Flodden was an ignominious and disastrous moment for the Scots, all the more so for being a largely unnecessary encounter, fought with superior numbers and arms, which left the country weak, exposed and leaderless. In this bestselling study of one of the most famous battles in history, Peter Reese recreates the drama and calamity of the battle fought just south of the River Tweed on 9 September 1513. Drawing together the political, military and historical background to the conflict, he examines the two armies and their leaders and explains the crucial tactical moves both before and during the encounter. The result is a thoroughly researched yet always accessible and realistic account of the battle Scotland has tried to forget.
Author : Trevor Ternan
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Peter Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 178200419X
Pete Armstrong's illustrated account of the Battle of Bannockburn, a pivotal campaign in the First War of Scottish Independence. Bannockburn was the climax of the career of King Robert the Bruce. In 1307 King Edward I of England, 'The Hammer of the Scots' and nemesis of William Wallace, died and his son, Edward II, was not from the same mould. Idle and apathetic, he allowed the Scots the chance to recover from the grievous punishment inflicted upon them. By 1314 Bruce had captured every major English-held castle bar Stirling and Edward II took an army north to subdue the Scots. Pete Armstrong's account of this battle culminates at the decisive battle of Bannockburn that finally won Scotland her independence.