TY  - BOOK
AU  - GIDDINGS Robert
TI  - Imperial echoes: eye-witness accounts of Victoria's little wars\
SN  - 085052394X (hbk.)
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Leo Cooper
KW  - BRITISH
KW  -  HISTORY
KW  - BURMA
KW  -  WAR
KW  - WARS
N2  - The book contains eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars, Gurkha, Burmese and Afghan.  This is a collection of imperial echos, grouped together on the basis of their location.  A considerable resource from which might be assembled an alternative non-official history of some of the landmarks in British imperial history.  The 19th century particularly the late Victorian period was the age of empire.  The century begins with a few border, frontier and tribial conflicts in the Indian sub-continent.  The British soldier was busy throughout the nineteeth century
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