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Britain's forgotten wars
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Ian Hernon has been a lobby correspondent at the House of Commons for the past twenty four years.he is married with two daughters and lives in Kent.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is chock full of fascinating and forgotten moments of conflict. Starting with the Kandy wars in treacherous jungle it pulls you through moments of red coated and wooden shoe wearing soldiers fighting in the foothills of the Himalayas to machine gun wielding exchanges in Africa. This is an excellent book to underline the huge diversity and scope of challenges the British army had to face in the 19th century.
There are however problems. As 1 other reviewer points out for no properly explained reason there's one chapter on the US army vs. Native Americans a very strange inclusion in a book about the British army. Secondly the conflicts are not in chronological order and this at times gets confusing as in one situation soldiers have modern weapons piling on the firepower only to find in the next chapter they are standing in long red coated lines firing muskets. The organisation could have been forgiven if this jumbling up was to make a point but there's nothing really linking these chapters, no overarching theory or point.
It is always interesting reading, I am just not convinced that the book has much value other than a series of "boys own" stories.
If you liked this there's more historical debate and fun at @HistoryGems on Facebook and Twitter
There are however problems. As 1 other reviewer points out for no properly explained reason there's one chapter on the US army vs. Native Americans a very strange inclusion in a book about the British army. Secondly the conflicts are not in chronological order and this at times gets confusing as in one situation soldiers have modern weapons piling on the firepower only to find in the next chapter they are standing in long red coated lines firing muskets. The organisation could have been forgiven if this jumbling up was to make a point but there's nothing really linking these chapters, no overarching theory or point.
It is always interesting reading, I am just not convinced that the book has much value other than a series of "boys own" stories.
If you liked this there's more historical debate and fun at @HistoryGems on Facebook and Twitter
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Interesting book and appears well researched despite a lack of detailed references. However thoughout this huge volume there is a thread of anti-britishness and vaulting the noble savage that gets rather repetitive, annoyingly so.
Format:Paperback
This book is a good read , full of ripping yarns of Empire , the Victorian age when a quarter of the globe was coloured pink !! It covers everything from quite well-known colonial campaigns to skirmishes that look quite tame compared to Saturday nights in many modern British towns and cities !! An excellent book only lacking the addition of a map or two to accompany its account of each campaign .
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Enjoyable...but flawed.
Hernon provides the reader with an immensely readable account of unfamiliar aspects of British history. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2008 by Interested layman
very good
fantastic view of all the less well known actions fought by the british empire, very interesting indeed. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2007 by Paul Debnam
A guide to the Flashman novels
Forgotten wars is a usually highly readable account of some of the most noble and ignoble of britains overseas adventures. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2004 by J. Deane
A classic that brings you into the action
From start to finish this book grabs you by the collar and drags you into the frantic action, frustrating fiascos and personal nature of the inidivduals. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2003 by "justanopinion"
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