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Campaign history built to be read: political context, battlefield ground, commanders, first-hand service perspective and remembrance — connected rather than dumped into one feed.
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ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Durnford, focusing on No. 2 Column, his arrival at Isandlwana, the command controversy and his final fight on the British right.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Lord Chelmsford, commander of the 1879 British invasion of Zululand, focusing on Isandlwana, campaign reform and the final victory at Ulundi.
SERVICE & FIELDCRAFT
A former Royal Welsh mortarman’s guide to why BATUK in Kenya and BATUS at Suffield stay in soldiers’ memories: terrain, live-fire scale, observation, ammunition, convoy routes, host-nation context, how the training areas...
NAPOLEONIC WARS
The political road to Waterloo: Napoleon’s first abdication and Elba exile, the Bourbon Restoration, the Congress of Vienna, Napoleon’s return, the Allied declaration and Seventh Coalition, and why diplomacy made a new...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of James Langley Dalton VC, the experienced commissariat officer whose judgement, preparation and fighting helped shape the defence of Rorke’s Drift.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
A complete field guide to the Battle of Alexandria on 21 March 1801: the Aboukir landing, the fighting of 13 March, British and French positions, Abercromby and Menou, the night attack, 28th...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande, the Zulu royal commander who led the attack on Rorke’s Drift and later fought at Gingindlovu.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
The political and strategic road to the Battle of Alexandria: why Revolutionary France invaded Ottoman Egypt, Britain’s concern for the route to India, Selim III’s response, Nelson’s victory at the Nile, the...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead VC, commander of B Company, 2/24th, and his role in the defence of Rorke’s Drift in 1879.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Lieutenant John Chard VC, focusing on his command role, improvised defence and decision-making at Rorke’s Drift in January 1879.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Rorke’s Drift re-examined from the primary record: Chard, Bromhead, Dalton, the defenders, the Zulu attack, battlefield geometry, myths, uncertainties and all 11 Victoria Cross recipients.
SERVICE & FIELDCRAFT
A veteran infantry, recce and CIS guide to reading military ground beyond a GPS location: contours, dead ground, routes, observation, radio line of sight, historical battlefield maps and why a coordinate is...
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