SOLDIERS: A HISTORY OF MEN IN BATTLE

Author: John Keegan and Richard Holmes

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Year published: 1985

Pagination: 288pp, 100 colour & b/w illustrations, index

Condition: vg in dw

Introduced by writer, Frederick Forsyth, this is a major history of men in battle as told by two of the foremost military historians of the twentieth century. It traces the progress of fighting men from ancient foot soldiers armed with primitive edged weapons, via the ages of armour, cavalry and projectile weapons, to present warfare using automated electronic systems.