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Pages: 256
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-08 - Publisher:
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Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-14 - Publisher: Springer
Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and mili
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed
Language: en
Pages: 227
Pages: 227
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that wa