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British Counterinsurgency
British Counterinsurgency challenges the British Army's claim to counterinsurgency expertise. It provides well-written, accessible and up-to-date accounts of the post-1945 campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Dhofar, Northern Ireland and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.
British Counterinsurgency
British Counterinsurgency examines the insurgencies that have confronted the British State since the end of the Second World War, and at the methods used to fight them. It looks at the guerrilla campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Oman, and most recently in Northern Ireland, and considers the reasons for British success or failure in suppressing them. It provides a hard-nosed account of the realities of counterinsurgency as practised by the most experienced security establishment in the world today.
The Blood Never Dried
Newsinger challenges the claim that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler empire and suggests that the description 'rogue state' is more fitting. In a wonderful popular history of key episodes in British imperial history, he illustrates the darker side of the glory years - Britain's deep involvement in the Chinese opium trade; Gladstone's maiden parliamentary speech defending his family's slave plantation in Jamaica - paying particular attention to the strenuous efforts of the colonised to free themselves of the motherland's baleful rule.
Hope Lies in the Proles
"John Newsinger offers a sympathetic yet critical account of Orwell's political thinking and its continued significance. The book details Orwell's attempts to change working-class consciousness, and considers if his attitude towards the working class was romantic, realistic or patronizing--or all three at different times. Newsinger asks whether Orsell's anti-fascism was eclipsed by his criticism of the Soviet Union, and explores his ambivalent relationship with the Labor Party."--Page [4] of cover.
Army, Empire, and Cold War
David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
Dangerous Men
‘A clear-headed critique of the SAS cult ... an incisive challenge to the mindless worship of 'the Regiment'.' --Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Orwell's Politics
A study of George Orwell's political ideas and beliefs from his time as a policeman in Burma through to the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four,"
Times of Troubles
How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British military experience post-WW2.
The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967
In this seminal reassessment of the historical foundation of British counter doctrine and practice, David French challenges our understanding that in the two decades after 1945 the British discovered a kinder and gentler way of waging war amongst the people.
Fighting the Mau Mau
This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
