Queen Victoria's little wars

著者

• Farwell, Byron

書誌事項

Queen Victoria's little wars

Byron Farwell

W.W. Norton, 1985, c1972

• pbk.

注記

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1972

Bibliography: p. 373-382

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted way of life in the Victorian era, and in the process the size of the British Empire quadrupled. But engrossing as these small wars are-and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident-it is the officers and men who fought them that dominate this book. With their courage, foolhardiness, and eccentricities, they are an unforgettable lot.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA08037460
• ISBN:
  • 0393302350
• LCCN: 85009002
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xx, 394 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DA68
  • DC19 : 909.81
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History, Military -- 19th century