TIDES OF WAR

Author: Ronald Pearsall

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Year published: 1978

Pagination: 372pp

Condition: vg in dw

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Fiction. A saga of military life at the turning point brought about by the introduction of the Cardwell reforms, a series of reforms of the British Army undertaken by Secretary of State for War, Edward Cardwell between 1868 and 1874. Liberal Prime Minister William E. Gladstone paid little attention to military affairs but he was keen on efficiency. In 1870 he pushed through Parliament major changes in Army organization. The book recounts the life of a British Soldier in a County Regiment in the 19th Century, fighting in the Ashanti, Spanish-American, and Boer Wars.