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Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland.


Cassell's Battlefields of Britain & Ireland

Richard Brooks
  • Richard Brook is currently the Chief Executive of the Public Guardianship Office, part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. He was previously the Chief Exectutive of Mind, the mental health charity, and has many years experience in the public and not-for-profit
 

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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n.
1. A fortified enclosure for artillery on a warship.

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2114 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083

0304363332 $49.95 1-610-853-9131 www.casematepublishing.com

Cassell's Battlefields of Britain & Ireland is an exhaustive survey of military actions fought upon British and Irish soil throughout history, from 55 B.C. to 1940. Organized by chronology chronology,
n the arrangement of events in a time sequence, usually from the beginning to the end of an event.
, Cassell's Battlefields of Britain & Ireland chronicles major events site by site with battle statistics and descriptions ideal for casual readers and professional historians alike. Over 100 detailed battle maps round out this hefty compendium com·pen·di·um  
n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a
1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.

2. A list or collection of various items.
, which tackles its immense subject matter in as orderly a fashion as possible. Enthusiastically recommended for library and military history collections.
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