Red Coat, Green Machine : Continuity in Change in the British Army 1700 to 2000.

Red Coat, Green Machine : Continuity in Change in the British Army 1700 to 2000.

How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe? This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interac...

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Main Author: Kirke, Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Series:Birmingham war studies series.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army. > Infantry > History.
Great Britain. > Army. > Infantry
Soldiers > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Soldiers > Great Britain > History.
Soldiers
Soldiers > Social conditions
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Foreword by Richard Holmes; Acknowledgements; PART I: PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT; 1 Forming Up; 2 Looking Around; PART II: THE GREEN MACHINE; 3 Orders is Orders; 4 Mates, Sirs and Unwritten Rules; 5 Doing the Business; 6 Being the Best; 7 Pulling it Through
  • the Lived Experience; PART III: KHAKI SHADING TO RED; 8 Past Structures; 9 Laws, Rules and Good Company; 10 Unbroken Threads?; PART IV: THE FOLLOW-THROUGH; 11 Consolidation; 12 Exploitation; APPENDICES.
  • 1 Background Information on the Structure and Organization of Combat Arms Units in the British Army in the 1990s2 Checklist Using the Model to Test for Authenticity of First-hand British Soldiers' Texts; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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