The author examines in turn all of the world's major armies as they prepared to meet the challenges of warfare in the second half of the nineteenth century. He describes their main engagements, fighting qualities and organisation covering a period of history commencing with the Battle of Alma in the Crimea, the American Civil War and through to the eve of the First World War.
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