From Boiled Beef to Chicken Tikka: 500 Years of Feeding the British Army

Including recipes, this book "takes a different look at military history but one every bit as relevant as any blood and guts campaign study" (Britain at War).

Janet Macdonald, author of the acclaimed Feeding Nelson's Navy, now turns her attention to food in the British Army over the past two centuries. Napoleon's remark "an army marches on its stomach" has become an over-used cliché. It is a simple statement and undoubtedly true, but like many such simple statements, the actuality of what f...