HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY

READING LIST

(All Titles Are in the Torreyson Library)

General Works

Babington, Anthony. Military Intervention in Britain: From the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Killings (1990).

Barnett, Correlli. Britain and Her Army, 1509-1970: A Military, Political, and Social Survey (1970).

Bidwell, Shelford. Fire-Power: British Army Weapons and Theories of War 1904-1945 (1985).

Brodsky, G. W. Stephen. Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army since 1660 (1988).

Cuneo, John R. Robert Rogers of the Rangers (1959).

Cunningham, Hugh. The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History, 1859-1908 (1976).

Keegan, John. The Face of Battle (1976).

Strachan, Hew. From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology, and the British Army, 1815-1854 (1985).

The Army's First Century of Existence, 1660-1763

Ashley, Maurice. Marlborough (1956).

Bence-Jones, Mark. Clive of India (1975).

Churchill, Winston, Sir. Marlborough: His Life and Times (1968).

Davies, A. Mervyn. Clive of Plassey: A Biography (1939).

Edwardes, Michael. Plassey: The Founding of an Empire (1969).

Francis, A. D. The First Peninsular War, 1702-1713 (1975).

Hibbert, Christopher. Wolfe at Quebec (1959).

Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis. The War of Succession in Spain, 1700-15 (1969).

Leach, Douglas Edward. Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763 (1973).

Leach, Douglas Edward. Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763 (1986).

Maguire, W. A., ed. Kings in Conflict: The Revolutionary War in Ireland and Its Aftermath, 1689-1750 (1990).

St. John Williams, Noel T. Redcoats and Courtesans: The Birth of the British Army (1660-1690) (1994).

Schwoerer, Lois G. "No Standing Armies!" The Antiarmy Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (1974).

Sherrard, Owen Aubrey. Lord Chatham: Pitt and the Seven Years' War (1955).

Sims, J. G. Jacobite Ireland, 685-91 (1969).

Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher. Inglorious Rebellion: The Jacobite Risings of 1708, 1715, and1719 (1972).

Speck, W. A. The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the 45 (1981).

Thomson, George Malcolm. The First Churchill: The Life of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1980).

The Army's First Century of Existence, 1660-1763 (Eyewitness Accounts)

Chandler, David G., ed. Robert Parker and Comte de Merode-Westerloo: The Marlborough Wars (1968).

Rogers, Robert. Journals: Reprinted from the Original Ed. of 1765 (1961).

Rogers, Robert. Journals of Major Robert Rogers (1765).

American War of Independence

Alden, John Richard. General Gage in America: Being Principally a History of His Role in the American Revolution (1948).

Atwood, Rodney. The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen Kassel in the American Revolution (1980).

Billias, George Athan, ed. George Washington's Opponents: British Generals and Admirals in the American Revolution (1969).

Bird, Harrison. March to Saratoga: General Burgoyne and the American Campaign, 1777 (1963).

Dwyer, William M. The Day Is Ours!: November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton (1983).

Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride (1994).

Frey, Sylvia R. The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period (1981).

Gallagher, John J. The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 (1995).

Gruber, Ira D. The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution (1972).

Hargrove, Richard J. General John Burgoyne (1983).

Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (1990).

McCowen, George Smith. The British Occupation of Charleston, 1780-82 (1972).

Mintz, Max M. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gates (1990).

Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782 (1992).

Pearson, Michael. Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen through British Eyes (1972).

Sampson, Richard. Escape in America: The British Convention Prisoners, 1777-1783 (1995).

Shy, John W. Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution (1965).

Tharpe, Louise Hall. The Baroness and the General (1962).

Wickwire, Franklin B., and Mary. Cornwallis: The American Adventure (1970).

American War of Independence (Eyewitness Accounts)

Balderston, Marion, and Syrett, David, eds. The Lost War: Letters from British Officers during the American Revolution (1975).

Barker, John. The British in Boston: The Diary of Lt. John Barker (1969).

Baurmeister, Carl Leopold. Revolution in American: Confidential Letters and Journals, 1776-1784 of Adjutant General Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces (1957).

Clinton, Henry, Sir. The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative of His Campaigns, 1775-1782, with An Appendix of Original Documents (1954).

De Krafft, John Charles Philip. Journal of Lieutenant John Charles Philip von Krafft, 1776-1784 (1968).

Dohla, Johann Conrad. A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution (1990).

Eelking, Max von, ed. Memoirs, Letters, and Journals of Major General Riedesel (1969).

Ewald, Johann von. Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal (1979).

Evelyn William Glandville. Memoir and Letters of Captain W. Glanville Evelyn (1971).

Lamb, Roger. An Original and Authentic Journal of Occurrences during the Late American War (1968).

Muenchhausen, Friedrich Ernst von. At General Howe's Side, 1776-1778: The Diary of General William Howe's Aide de Camp, Captain Friedrich von Muenchhausen (1974).

Pettengill, Ray Waldron, ed.. Letters from American, 1776-1779: Being Letters of Brunswick, Hessian, and Waldeck Officers with the British Armies during the Revolution (1964).

Riedesel, Frederike Charlotte Luise Freifrau von. Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783 (1965).

Serle, Ambrose. The American Journal of Ambrose Serle (1969).

Specht, Johann Friedrich. The Specht Journal: A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign (1995).

Tarleton, Banastre. A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton (1967).

Wasmus, J. F. An Eyewitness Account of the American Revolution and New England Life: The Journal of J. F. Wasmus, German Company Surgeon, 1776-1783 (1990).

The Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

Buckley, Roger Norman. Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979).

Burne, Alfred Higgins. The Noble Duke of York: The Military Life of Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1949).

Longford, Elizabeth. Wellington. Volume 1: The Years of the Sword (1969).

Stanley, George F. G. The War of 1812: Land Operations (1983).

Sugden, John. Tecumseh's Last Stand (1985).

Weller, Jac. Wellington at Waterloo (1967).

The Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815 (Eyewitness Accounts)

Cocks. Edward Charles. Intelligence Officer in the Peninsula: Letters and Diaries of Major the Hon. Edward Charles Cocks, 1786-1812 (1986).

Mercer, Cavalie. Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, Kept throughout the Campaign of 1815 (1970).

Siborne, H. T., ed. Waterloo Letters (1993).

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Barker, A. J. Vainglorious War: The War against Russia, 1854-1856 (1971).

Mollo, John. Into the Valley of Death: The British Cavalry Division at Balaclava, 1854 (1991).

Selby, John. Balaclava: Gentlemen's Battle (1970).

Sweetman, John. War and Administration: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army (1984).

Thomas, Donald. Cardigan: A Life of Lord Cardigan of Balaclava (1975).

Woodham Smith, Cecil. The Reason Why (1954).

Crimean War, 1854-1856 (Eyewitness Accounts)

Nightingale, Florence. I Have Done My Duty: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56 (1987).

Reid, Douglas Arthur. Soldier-Surgeon: The Crimean War Letters of Douglas A. Reid, 1855-1856 (1968).

Colonial Wars of the Victorian Era

Barthorp, Michael. The North-West Frontier: British India and Afghanistan: A Pictorial History, 1839-1947 (1982).

Farwell, Byron. Prisoners of the Mahdi: The Story of the Mahdist Revolt which Frustrated Queen Victoria's Designs on the Sudan, Humbled Egypt, and Led to the Fall of Khartoum, the Death of Gordon, and Kitchener's Victory at Omdurman Fourteen Years Later (1967).

Farwell, Byron. The Great Anglo-Boer War (1976).

Knight, Ian. Zulu: Islandlwana and Rorke's Drift 22nd-23rd January 1879 (1992).

Leasor, James. The Red Fort: The Story of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (1982).

Lehmann, Joseph H. The Model Major-General: A Biography of Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley (1964).

Lehmann, Joseph H. Remember You Are an Englishman: A Biography of Sir Harry Smith, 1787-1860 (1977).

Magnus, Philip Montefiore, Sir, Bart. Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist (1958).

Morris, Donald R. The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 (1965).

Norris, J. A. The First Afghan War, 1838-1842 (1967).

Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War (1979).

Skelley, Alan Ramsay. The Victorian Army at Home: The Recruitment and Terms and Conditions of the British Regular, 1859-1899 (1977).

Symons, Julian. England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition (1965).

Waller, John H. Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War (1990).

Colonial Wars of the Victorian Era (Eyewitness Accounts)

Churchill, Winston, Sir. Winston S. Churchill, War Correspondent, 1895-1900 (1992).

Lawrence, George, Sir. Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India: Including Cabul Disasters, Captivities in Affghanistan and the Punjaub, and a Narrrative of the Mutinies in Rajputana (1981).

World War I

Beckett, Ian F. W., and Simpson, Keith. A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (1985).

Bourke, Joanna. Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War (1996).

Cassar, George H. The Tragedy of Sir John French (1985).

Cooper, Bryan. The Battle of Cambrai (1968).

Falls, Cyril Bentham. Armageddon: 1918 (1964).

Graves, Richard Perceval. Lawrence of Arabia and His World (1976).

Griffith, Paddy. Battle Tactics on the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18 (1994).

Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Some, 1 July 1916 (1972).

Moorehead, Alan. Gallipoli (1956).

Osborne, John Morton. The Voluntary Recruiting Movement in Britain, 1914-1916 (1982).

Pound, Reginald. The Lost Generation of 1914 (1965).

Rawling, Bill. Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 (1992).

Terraine, John. Ordeal of Victory (1963).

Terraine, John. To Win a War: 1918, the Year of Victory (1981).

Travers, Timothy. The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 (1987).

Travers, Timothy. How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917-1918 (1992).

World War I (Eyewitness Accounts)

Brown, Malcolm. Tommy Goes to War (1978).

World War II

Barnett, Correlli. The Desert Generals (1982).

Baynes, John. The Forgotten Victor: General Sir Richard O'Connor, KT, GCB, DSO, MC (1989).

Carver, Michael. Dilemmas of the Desert War: A New Look at the Libyan Campaign, 1940-1942 (1986).

Fay, Peter War. The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945 (1993).

Hamilton, Nigel. Monty, the Making of a General (1887-1942) (1981).

Karslake, Basil. 1940 - the Last Act: The Story of the British Forces in France after Dunkirk (1979).

Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6^th-August 25^th, 1944 (1982).

Keegan, John, ed. Churchill's Generals (1991).

Lewin, Ronald. Slim: The Standardbearer: A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (1976).

Middlebrook, Martin. Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle, 17-26 September (1994).

Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far (1974).

Stewart, Richard A. Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941 (1988).

Young, Peter. Storm from the Sea (1989).

World War II (Eyewitness Accounts)

Mongtgomery, Bernard Law Montomery, 1^st Viscount. El Alamein to the River Sangro (1949).

Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960

Barber, Noel. The War of the Running Dogs: The Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 (1972).

Thompson, Robert, Sir. Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam (1966).

The Troubles in Ireland, 1916 to Present

Bell, J. Bowyer. The Secret Army: A History of the IRA (1974).

McHugh, Roger, ed.. Dublin, 1916 (1966).

Murray, Raymond. The SAS in Ireland (1990).

O'Connor, Ulick. Troubles: A Terrible Beauty Is Born: The Irish Troubles, 1912-1922 (1975).

Townshend, Charles. The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919-1921: The Development of Political and Military Policies (1975).

Falkland Islands War, 1982

Middlebrook, Martin. Operation Corporate: The Falklands War, 1982 (1985).

Sunday Times of London Insight Team. War in the Falklands: The Full Story (1982).

Vaux, Nick. Take that Hill!: Royal Marines in the Falklands War (1986).