Ian Beckett

Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of conflict in the modern world since the end of the Second World War. Accordingly, it has posed a major challenge to conventional armed forces, all of whom have had to evolve counter-insurgency methods in response. The volume brings together classic articles on the counter-insurgency experience since 1945.

Modern Counter-Insurgency

Mark Connelly

Timothy Bowman

A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.

The British Army and the First World War

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.

The First Battle 1914

Ypres

In the fourth year of the Great War, the growing military, political, social and economic costs hit all existing belligerents while as yet uncommitted states joined the global conflict. 1917: Beyond the Western Front amply illustrates the crucial significance of this pivotal year.

1917: Beyond the Western Front

A collection of poems written on my travels reflecting on love and life and madness and the things that touched me along the path.

Ian Beckett

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