Publisher's Synopsis
This set, containing 27 volumes originally published between 1942 and 1990, provides a rich resource of scholarship on the history and strategy of the British Army and Navy, as well as in depth studies on particular British and European battles & campaigns, weapons and warfare and is authored by some of the leading experts in their field. Extensively illustrated with detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams, many of the volumes are both scholarly and entertaining . Filling gaps in neglected areas, the volumes include an outstanding biography of Frederick the Great; the first detailed account of the Invergordon mutiny based on the personal testimony of those involved on the lower deck; a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe and a unique photographic record of the British Expeditionary's Force in World War One, to name but a few.
