Book of Donmon Teith

This volume contends that the Boer War had a far greater impact upon British military reform than previously appreciated. The study concludes that had there not

The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it

Impressed with the tactical lessons of the Boer War, the British Army reformed its doctrine and training from 1899 to 1914, deploying a combat ready force, the

A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in t

This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned