REVOLUTIONARY ARMIES IN THE MODERN ERA

Author: S P MacKenzie

Publisher: Routledge, Keegan & Paul

Year published: 1997

Pagination: 243pp, notes, index

Condition: vg in rubbed dw

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Taking examples from a variety of places around the world from mid-17th century to the 20th century, the author provides a historical and international perspective on armies arising out of reactionary as well as revolutionary movements. Includes The New Model Army in the English Civil War; the Continental Army in the American War of Independence; the French Republic and the War of the First Coalition; Bolivar and the Liberation of Gran Columbia; Voortreckers and the Zulu War; the Taiping Rebellion in China; the Indian Mutiny; the Spanish Civil War; the Waffen-SS in WWII; the Viet Cong 1960-75.