Table of Contents

List of Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction
1: Michael Prestwich: The English Medieval Army to 1485
2: Ian Roy: Towards the Standing Army 1485-1660
3: John Childs: The Restoration Army 1660-1702
4: David Chandler: The Great Captain-General 1702-1714
5: Alan J. Guy: The Army of the Georges 1714-1783
6: Tony Hayter: The Army and the First British Empire 1714-1783
7: David Gates: The Transformation of the Army 1783-1815
8: Peter Burroughs: An Unreformed Army? 1815-1868
9: Edward Spiers: The Late Victorian Army 1868-1914
10: Tim Travers: The Army and the Challenge of War 1914-1918
11: Peter Simkins: The Four Armies 1914-1918
12: Brian Bond: The Army between the Two World Wars 1918-1939
13: Carlo D'Este: The Army and the Challenge of War 1939-1945
14: Alex Danchev: The Army and the Home Front 1939-1945
15: Anthony Farrar-Hockley: The Post-War Army 1945-1963
16: John Strawson: The Thirty Years Peace
17: T. A. Heathcote: The Army of British India
18: Ian Beckett: The Amateur Military Tradition
19: Hew Strachan: The British Way in Warfare
20: Michael Yardley: Towards the Future
Chronology
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dr David Chandler (General Editor) is a distinguished military historian with many successful books to his credit and a former head of the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is President Emeritus of the British Commission for Military History, and a former Vice-President of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire Militaire. Professor Ian Beckett (Associate Editor), a former Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst, is currently Professor of
Modern History at the University of Luton. He is secretary of the Army Records Society.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition The most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume history of the British Army ever written'
The Times
`A score of admirable essays that trace the army's history from the Anglo-Saxon fyrd to the Gulf War and even a glance into the dark glass of the future.'
Good Book Guide
`a highly readable and thorough history which will both entertain and educate'
Forces News
`has the advantage that each chapter can be read as a self-contained piece...excellent'
Officer