В монография исследются характер и особенности военно-политических событий на территории Сибири в первый период Гражданской войны - с конца 1917 по май 1918 гг. Показана роль военнослужащих Русской армии в установлении советской власти в крае.

This book catalogs the round metal badges worn by U.S. Army enlisted men on their uniform collars between 1907 and 1926. Included are details of manufacture, variations, state insignia, non-military examples, and unofficial designs.

In this account, Hibbert's focus is not on the military or political machinations that engulfed the conflict, but upon the people that participated in it. He has based his research upon scores of letters, diaries, and other first hand accounts of the mutiny, as well as on a score of military and government documents. He has combined this information to weave an eminently readable account of the Great Mutiny. However, his account can be a bit graphic at times, which some readers may find unsettling.

This book is a selection from the Company of Military Historians' series of plates depicting uniforms worn in America or by American forces. The scholarship is of the highest standards, and the artwork is often superb. This volume concentrates on the American colonies in revolt, and their allies and enemies–British, French, Hessian, Brunswick, and others.

This volume presents a number of colored plates depicting uniforms of the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, as well as of Mexican and European forces involved in Maximillian's Mexican adventure.

Douglas McChristian describes the development of army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a pivotal decade of experimentation and against a backdrop of a highly influential military operation–the Indian campaigns in the American West. Each type of item and its modifications are described using much new information from the records of the Ordnance and Quatermaster departments. Included are excerpts from previously unpublished 1875 field reports. Illustrated with more than two hundred photographs gathered from public and private collections. Unfortunately, a good number of the photographs of smaller items are printed very dark, but the text is extraordinary and makes up for that.

1918 was probably the most dramatic and decisive year in British military history. Published on the eightieth anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, this book tells the story of a year during which the casualty lists on all sides were longer, the turns of fortune were most remarkable, and action was most intense. The author uses first-hand accounts of the participants of this dreadful conflict to tell of the horror of this conflict as seen through the eyes and experiences of the soldiers. With access to the Imperial War Museums archives he utilizes the reports, letters, diaries and interviews of the soldiers and civilians on both sides who fought during 1918. This is not only history but also flesh and blood. The accounts of some the people in this book are truly sad, they hit home and make plain that these were real people, individuals caught up in a war of massive scale and destruction.

Dr Parker examines why Spain, the most powerful state of post-Renaissance Europe, failed to suppress the Dutch Revolt. This was the first attempt to see the Revolt from the Spanish point of view. The author considers in particular the Army of Flanders, the principal instrument of Spanish policy in the Netherlands, basing his account on the army's own records. Pay, transportation, recruiting, and mutinies are examined in this distinguished and lucid book.

Two of the Mollo brothers, experts in the field, present a survey of the Russian army from the time of Peter the Great to the First World War. Besides the colorful uniform plates, there is an examination of the numerous wars fought by Russia against her many enemies. The text also comments on the overall characteristics of Russian army uniforms as they adapted to changing times and different theaters of operations.

Most of the Tolstoys abandoned their ancestral homeland shortly after the Revolution. Among them were the parents of Nikolai Tolstoy, an author born in England in 1935; he continues to live and write there today. In ''The Tolstoys'' he tells the fascinating and complicated story of his family's glorious and bloody past and, for the most part, he tells it with authority, grace and good humor. The reader will find no startling new revelations on the career or personality of the great writer Leo Tolstoy. It is his less-known but no less colorful relatives who occupy the center of attention.

This is the first of Michael Barthorp's four books on British colonial wars in the nineteenth century. It covers the Zulu War, famous for the annihilation of the British Camp at Isandlhwana and the defense of Rorke's Drift immediately thereafter. Over 150 photographs and contemporary illustrations from museums and private collections, both in Britain and South Africa, are complemented by a text which explains the background and causes of the war, the opposing forces and plans, and the course of the campaign, from its disastrous beginning until the final overthrow of the most feared tribal nation in Africa.

Britain's continual military involvement in Egypt and the Sudan to protect British 'interests' and the Suez Canal is a compelling storty of grueling desert campaigns led by such famous Victorian generals as Wolseley, Gordon and Kitchener against the charismatic Mahdi and the Khalifa. Michael Barthorp tells the story of the men who fought: Egyptian conscripts, Dervishes, Kipling's 'Fuzzy Wuzzy' as well as British and Indian regulars and the Royal Navy.

This book is the fourth in Michael Barthorp's series of illustrated narrative histories of the British army's colonial campaigns in the nineteenth century. It outlines within one volume Britain's attempts to deprive the Afrikaners of the independence they had striven for since the seventeenth century, not only during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 but also in earlier clashes between Briton and Boer since Britain acquired the Cape of Good Hope in the Napoleonic War.

This book vividly conveys Britain's century-long preoccupation with the Frontier, from the first disastrous adventure into Afghanistan until her withdrawal in 1947. Inevitably, it is chiefly a story of conflict, of bloody struggle against determined and cunning opponent, amid pitiless terrain. There was bravery, cruelty, devotion, and trickery on both sides, but there developed a redeeming thread of mutual respect, even affection, between Briton and Pathan which survived the hostility between them.

D.C.B Lieven, "Russia and the Origins of the First World War"

The immediate reason for Russia's involvement in the First World War lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during July 1914. No history of the origins of the war could therefore fail to pay considerable attention to the July crisis. The crisis did not, however, exist in a void. On the contrary, it was the latest in a series of diplomatic conflicts which in the decade prior to 1914 had raised international tensions almost to the breaking point.