Revolutionary armies in the modern era

This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differences and similarities between such armies. Beginning with an exploration of the New Model Army of th...

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Main Author: Mackenzie, S. P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge 1997
Series:New international history series
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505 0 |a The New Model Army in the English Civil War, 1645-6 -- The Continental Army in the War of American Independence, 1775-82 -- The armies of the French Republic and the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7 -- The armies of Bolivar and the war for the liberation of Gran Colombia, 1811-24 -- The Voortrekkers, Blood River, and the Zulu War of 1838-40 -- The armies of the Heavenly Kingdom and the Taiping Rebellion in China, 1850-68 -- Sepoys in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-9 -- The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9 -- The Waffen-SS in the Second World War, 1939-45 -- The Viet Cong in the Second Indochina War, 1960-75. 
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