Island Warriors : A Military Odyssey around Britain

Name: Island Warriors : A Military Odyssey around Britain
Brand: Amberley Publishing

Amberley Publishing

Island WarriorsA Military Odyssey around Britain\nAuthor(s): John Sadler, Graham Trueman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Amberley Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781398114791, 978-1398114791\nSynopsis\nWar was Britains furnace for two thousand years and we are that forging. Rome conquered England if not Scotland and imposed military rule. Saxon raiders, then Vikings and finally Normans each invaded in turn. England and Scotland spent three hundred years at war with each other a very nasty form of endemic, asymmetric warfare and those scars still linger. Edward III pursued expeditionary warfare against France and established a tradition that has since characterised UK military activity: the projection of force across the globe, as recently demonstrated in the Falklands War of 1982. In 1914 Lord Haldane asked: What is the Army for? Nobody yet has a definitive answer, nor ever will.\n\nAll of this experience and the many traditions it has fostered areu