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The definitive narrative of the British army from one of the UNITED KINGDOM's best-selling historic novelists.From the English Civil War to today's War on Terror: within this significant bill of almost 500 years of military background, former gift Allan Mallinson looks at how the Army's remarkable past has managed to get one of the very successful fighting forces in the planet today.He reveals us the folks and events which have formed the army we all know today: how Marlborough's important victory at Blenheim is associated with Wellington's at Waterloo; how the determined battle at Rorke's Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the Flying forces in Arnhem in 1944; and why Montgomeryis important victory at El Alamein mattered following the Second World-War was over.This long may be the tale of hard-gained military encounter. In the Military's delivery at the battle of Edgehill in 1642 to the present turmoil in Afghanistan, this really is history at its most related -- and most dramatic.From the Hardcover version.