Into the Jaws of Death: British Military Blunders, 1879-1900

A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." —BBC History Magazine

Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." In his new work on the most dramatic Victorian campaigns, Mike Snook brings the most dramati...