The author, who fought in the Boer War and also reported on it for the London Daily Telegraph, set out in 1914, as the Great War began, to document the training and daily routine of the British soldier.

"Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life -- and battle -- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Why exactly was B saved? And is there anyone left in the world to trust?"--

Old Soldier Sahib is like every man's real, ideal army book - and it is the story of the author's own experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th-century before the Great War. He tells graphically of barracks life and the life of a recruit in England in the early 1900s, of Indian service, of the military men and routine and the round of events, amusing and dramatic and romantic in the British army. Recounts with...

The British army in the late eighteenth century was a small organization of officers and men more or less isolated from the civilian society which gave it grudging support. Like most armies then and now it possessed institutional characteristics some of which contrasted sharply with those of the civilian life around it. It was an authoritarian organization which demanded exact obedience. It was a rigidly stratified social system with a hierarchy of...

One of the last of the famed Bengal Lancers, Brigadier Ingall has spent most of his life in India and Pakistan. When he first went to India in 1929, all the officers were English and all the enlisted men were Indian (Hindu, Sikh and Moslem). India was part of theBritish Empire and the Army was basically involved with hunting down outlaw bands of horsemen and keeping them in order. One of his first experiences there was leading a charge on horseback...

Describes the events surrounding the Battle of Dunkirk and the rescue of British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II.

Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Paired with his constitutional...

"In 1940 the Germans had swept British forces out of Europe and seemed posed to invade the British Isles. Demoralized from months of hard fighting and numerous defeats, the British Army seemed incapable of stemming the onslaught of Axis land forces and were yet to have won a major land battle against the Germans. El Alamein is the story of how this seemingly defeated army turned near-defeat into victory with a hard-fought, four-month long battle in...

Explains survival techniques, including self-defense, first aid, and how to acquire essentials like food, water, and shelter.

The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea, were killed and three times that number wounded. United Kingdom casualties amounted to some 300 Officers and 4,000 Other Ranks. The Royal Engineers deployed a Field Squadron to Korea in the Autumn of 1950 and this was expanded to a Regiment the following...