Ecco, 2014. — 482 p. A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - that vividly evokes the grandeur and barbarity of the Middle Ages William Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era - a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry - yet over the centuries, the spectacular story of his achievements passed from memory. Then, in 1861,...
New York: Random House, 1999. — 435 p.
As a reappraisal of the career of one of World War II’s most eccentric and controversial leaders, the biography of Orde C. Wingate by John Bierman and Colin Smith is very welcome. The official British history of the Burma campaign, written largely by officers who disliked Wingate (and there were many), has tended to play down the...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 320 p. This is the fascinating story of Earl William Marshal who negotiated the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in medieval English history - overshadowing even Agincourt. In 1217 England was...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 260 p. The career of William Marshal, who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of the Middle Ages. His biography was completed shortly after his death by a household minstrel and we are fortunate that it survives to give...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. — 380 p. Definitive book on the British higher Army officer who planned Britain to have an Expeditionary force to aid Belgium and France in time of war. Although he was not a General at the time, as Director of Planning he persuaded the Imperial General Staff and the politicians to enter the first European conflict since Waterloo in 1914. After...
Электронная онлайн-публикация автора, 2016. — 209 с. Прекрасная и детальная биография одного из самых лучших и талантливых английских полководцев эпохи Столетней Войны сэра Джона Чандоса (с.1314-1370). Благодаря своей храбрости и отваге, тактической смекалке и блестящему военному дару тактика он сумел сделать великолепную карьеру. От малоизвестного (в 1337 году) молодого эсквайра...
Bloomsbury, 2007. — 448 p. Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Admiral Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterparts. He was a man of naval action, whose bold and impulsive nature meant he was often his own worst enemy. Writing with gripping narrative skill and...
Sampson Low and Company, 1898. — 558 p. Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, GCMG, KCH (21 November 1790 – 23 November 1858) was an eminent British Admiral of the Royal Navy, and an eminent British diplomat, who was responsible for encouraging the Crimean War, during which he was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and for the securing the subsequent allied...
University of London, 1993. — 316 p. This dissertation of the English historian David Sidney Evans described the military service of the English Major-General Edward Massey during English Civil Wars 1642-1646. Sir Edward Massey (c. 1619–1674) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1674. He fought for the...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 320 p. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In between he became both the most...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 320 p. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In between he became both the most...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 167 p. Sir John Fortescue was the foremost military historian of his day. Librarian at Windsor Castle from 1905 to 1926, he was the author of many notable books, including his famous History of the British Army. Among these, his life of Wellington, described by the Spectator as ‘deserving to rank with Southey’s Nelson as a national classic’,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 368 p. Whether any advantage or benefit will be drawn from the suspension – or effective abolition – of the rank of Field Marshal is debatable. What is certain, however, is that Dr. Tony Heathcote’s idea of compiling a definitive biographical dictionary of holders of this illustrious rank since its introduction by George II in 1736, is opportune and...
Harper Collins, 2004. — 324 p. Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book. Richard Holmes charts...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 325 p. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (1864-1922), an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the most controversial British soldiers of the modern age. Before 1914 he did much to secure the Anglo-French alliance and was responsible for the planning which saw the British Expeditionary...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 255 p. — (British Lives). John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 464 p. Frederick Russell Burnham’s (1861–1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as “the American scout.” His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped...
Greenhill Books, 2023. — 272 p. General Lord Chelmsford’s military career took him around the world; he served in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Abyssinian Expedition, before commanding the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa. In January 1879, disaster struck when Chelmsford divided his forces at Isandlwana in the face of the enemy and the Zulu...
London: John Murray, 1849. — 1400 p. At length, after six years of unremitting toil, mental and physical, I have succeeded, to the entire exclusion of every other pursuit, in accomplishing an undertaking deemed by all most arduous, by many impracticable; disheartening truly in the perspective, but in the retrospect, a source to me of sincere gratification and, I hope I may add, of...
Skyhorse, 2014. — 157 p. — ISBN: 1629146854. First published in 1997, The Real Hornblower offers a comprehensive and engaging account of the life and times of this great naval Admiral. Ever since C.S. Forester's fictional hero Horatio Hornblower began to delight and enthral readers, there has been speculation as to whether his adventures were based on the career of a real naval...
Constable, 2001. — 640 p. Best known as the brutal muscle behind Britain's late 19th-century participation in the ""Scramble for Africa,"" whereby European powers vied with one another to divide the continent, Kitchener (1850-1916) and his tactics--which included concentration camps and massive scorched-earth policies in the Sudan and during the Boer War - have not fared so...
Constable, 2001. — 640 p. Best known as the brutal muscle behind Britain's late 19th-century participation in the ""Scramble for Africa,"" whereby European powers vied with one another to divide the continent, Kitchener (1850-1916) and his tactics--which included concentration camps and massive scorched-earth policies in the Sudan and during the Boer War - have not fared so...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. — 256 p. Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting – and extraordinary – figures of the eighteenth century.In From the Battlefield to the Stage Norman Poser provides a rounded biography, covering not only the Saratoga campaign but also...
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1914. — 243 p. Биография одного из лучших британских адмиралов (с 1770) флота - сэра Чарльза Саундерса (1713 или 1715 - 1775), достигшего в своей карьере высшего поста Первого Лорда британского Адмиралтейства. Он дважды командовал английским Средиземноморским флотом, руководил боевыми действиями эскадр в Ла-Манше и у берегов Французской...
Bloomsbury Reader, 2013. — 202 p. As the book unfolds it goes from his childhood wherein the connections between the great families of Europe are shown vividly through to his service in World War One and his acquaintance with several historical figures of import. The narrative then moves to the interwar years and his friendship with various royal figures. One way the book stays...
New York: Viking Press, 1975. 369 pgs. (London edition published under the title Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! ) James Thomas Brudenell, Seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), dragoon, hussar, huntsman, landholder, husband, adulterer, sometime Member of Parliament, duelist, probably the most hated and adulated aristocrat of his time, waited almost sixty years for his moment of glory...
Routledge, 2015. — 396 p. For James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, leading the Light Brigade at Balaclava was but one incident in a life of sensation and notoriety. Donald Thomas’s biography, originally published in 1977, and based on new material when originally published, shows this most controversial Victorian against a panorama of regimental intrigue and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2006. — 256 p. George Brydges Rodney (1718-1792), later Admiral Lord Rodney, had anything but a conventional career. His promising early career, which left him marked for advancement, had run into the sand during the long years of peace after the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Indeed when Britain and France found themselves at war again in 1778 as a result of...
London: Tauris Ltd., 2010. — 234 p. Sir Edward Woodville (c.1454-1488), Lord of Scales and K. G., was the medieval knight par excellence - except that his life coincided with the beginning of the Renaissance. With this vivid and long-awaited biography, Christopher Wilkins demonstrates how Sir Edward carved out an important role for himself in the 15th century, marrying the...
Pen & Sword. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1473848148. This is the first biography of Rt. Hon. WilliamWedgwood Benn DSO, DFC, first Viscount Stansgate, cabinet minister under MacDonald and Attlee, Air Commodore with active service in both World Wars, defector from the Liberals to Labour over his dispute with Lloyd George, and father of Tony Benn. Benn served in the army and RAF during the...
Москва: У Никитских ворот, 2021. — 298 с. — ISBN 978-5-00170-442-3. Он победил Наполеона в самом знаменитом сражении в мировой истории. И никогда не гордился этой победой. В 1815 в Англии его боготворили, а спустя пятнадцать лет – проклинали. Герцог Веллингтон. Железный герцог… За что его назвали «железным»? За стойкость при Ватерлоо? Или за то, что в его доме стояли железные...
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Биография адмирала дана на фоне развития военно-морских сил Великобритании, политики и дипломатии крупнейшей морской державы в первой половине XX века, решающих сражений за господство на Средиземном море в годы первой и второй мировой войны. Монография доктора исторических наук, профессора Д. В. Лихарева представляет собой первое в отечественном англоведении...
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ISBN: 5-7444-0426-0.
Политическая биография реформатора британского флота. Монография - первое на русском языке научное исследование жизни и деятельности выдающегося флотоводца и реформатора флота, ярого поборника технического перевооружения ВМС Великобритании адмирала Джона Фишера.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2016. — 416 с. — (Memorialis) — ISBN: 978-5-227-06777-7. Книга британского историка Томаса Эсбриджа посвящена величайшему рыцарю Средневековья Уильяму Маршалу (1147–1219). Блестящий знаток истории Англии времен Крестовых походов, автор воссоздает эпоху правления династии Плантагенетов, которая совпала с веком галантного рыцарства, ярким представителем...
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