Books by Stephen Manning

A revealing study of the confrontation between an eminent Victorian general and two of South Africa's warrior nations.

In-depth new history of the nineteenth-century wars fought between the British and the Asante people of West Africa.

Detailed, in-depth history of the development of weapons in the nineteenth century, focusing on the British army in the reign of Queen Victoria.

The only book to describe the entire experience of the Victorian soldier from letters and diaries