Buy this book on-line HOLMES,RICHARD**: : SOLDIERS: ARMY LIVES AND LOYALTIES FROM REDCOATS TO DUSTY WARRIORSLONDON.HarperPress,2011. ISBN 9780007225699.
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This is a story of a man as time-worn as the redcoats in the army of Charles II and as youthful as the gate-guards at Helmand's Camp Bastion.For Richard Holmes,the British soldier is signed up to a unique tribe, bound together across the generations.
Since 1660,the army has evolved in myriad ways,but the social organisation of the men has changed less.The major combat arms - infantry,cavalry and artillery - have retained much of the characteristics familiar to the men who fought at Blenheim, Waterloo and the Somme.The Duke of Marlborough,who oversaw the army's transition from a scarlet puddle of 'guards and garrisons' in the late 1660s to become the backbone of a coalition that dashed the the dynastic ambitions of Louis XIV,would recognise in the tired heroes of Helmand the descendants of the men he led to victory at Blenheim over three hundred years ago.
Richard Holmes was one of our most celebrated and influential military historians until his untimely death soon after completing this book.It is exhaustively researched,and Holmes's affection for the soldier 'warts and all' shines through on every page.Where did British soldiers come from? Why did they join and how did they reac to military service? This book considers the bonds of mateship and ties of discipline that sustained fighting men on the battlefield, but also the less martial aspects of the military - leave,family ties,drink,women, sport and gmbling.Many of the men in these pages prosper,and are promoted or decorated for their deeds; others find military life one long and sometimes dangerous agony.
Above all,this book is brimming with great stories,from the chaos of the battlefield to the fug of the barrack-room,from Ulster to Bengal,from landers fields to the Afghan hills.With the depth of its research matched to the wit and humour of the author's reflections,'Soldiers' is a wonderful testament to Holmes's brilliantly colourful blnd of erudition and anecdote. His profound knowledge and understanding of the soldier is displayed in these pages with magesterial force.It is Richard Holmes's last tribute to the British soldier,to whom he was so devoted.
Richard Holmes,noted and influential military historian was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University.Born 29 March 1946,Aldridge, Staffordshire and died 30 April 2011 (aged 65),Hampshire.He died suddenly from pneumonia and had been suffering from non-Hodgkins' Lymphoma.
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