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REDCOAT. The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
London HarperCollins 2001 0002570971 / 9780002570978 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 
Book and fine dustjacket. Pictorial endpapers. xxx, 466pp, including References, Biography and Index. With nice quality 33 colour and 31 black-and-white illustrations. The story of the 'backbone of the army' - the British from c.1760 until c.1860. Based on the letters and diaries of the ordinary soldiers on - uniforms, equipment, flogging, wounds, food, barrack life, courage, comradeship, etc. It charts Wolfe's victory and death in Quebec, the American War of Independence, the Duke of York's campaign in Flanders, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul, the Sikh wars in 1845-9, the Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny. 
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SAHIB. The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
London HarperCollins 2005 0007137532 / 9780007137534 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 
Book and dustjacket in fine condition. Pictorial endpapers. xxxiii, 572pp, Including Glossary, Bibliography, Notes and Index. With 20 colour and 29 black-and-white illustrations, and 3 maps. Beginning with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. The book examines Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling's 'snoring barrack room' to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way between louring hills. Explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. (9½"h x 6¼"w) (24cms x 16cms) approx. 
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SIDETRACKS. Explorations of a Romantic Biographer.
London HarperCollins 2000 0 00 255578 6 / 9780002555784 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 
Book and dustjacket in fine condition. 420pp. This book includes, two documentary radio-plays, many different kinds of character sketch and travelogue, true love stories and true ghost stories, and one piece 'Dr Johnson's First cat' which may or may not be a piece of true biographical fiction. We meet an assortment of Romantic and Gothic writers including - Chatterton, Gautier, Pierrot, Voltaire and James Boswell. 
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