About the Author

Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley is a General Officer with multinational operational command experience at all levels from platoon to corps in theatres from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, the Gulf, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan; as such, he is well qualified to discuss matters of military command. General Riley has been awarded the DSO and NATO Meritorious Service Medal and is an Officer of the Legion of Merit of the United States of America. He holds the degrees of MA and PhD in modern history and has written 21 published books, including two biographies, of which four have had second editions and one a third. He has also published A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock for the War of 1812 bicentenary. His book Napoleon as a General was nominated for the Army's Military History Book of the Year award. General Riley is currently Visiting Professor in War Studies at King's College London, a member of the British Commission for Military History, and Chairman of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Museum Trust. He is retained as a technical expert by the International Criminal Court, has undertaken work with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and sits on two bodies advising the Welsh Government on matters related to the recent Great War commemorations.

Reviews

...Excellent and highly recommended book if you have any interest at all in the early British Army. * Arquebusier *
This books fills an important gap in the history of the British Army in the 17th century. * Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research *
...a very interesting look at a long forgotten campaign...this lively, well-written account will prove interesting reading for any armchair general. * NYMAS *
...a riveting story, very well told and eminently readable... * Fortress Study Group *
In short a great book that will be going with me to Normandy next year. * Army Rumour Service *
This book is a valuable contribution to seventeenth century military history, and a fitting tribute to the brave men, whether royalist or parliamentarian, catholic or protestant, who took the redcoat of the English Brigade to the Iberian Peninsula a century or more before Wellington. * Battlefield Magazine *