Books in the From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 series

A fresh study of the tumultuous events of August 1870 when Prussia overthrew the established order in Europe, laying the foundations for a military and political hegemony lasting into the 20th Century.

In this short book historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa's Cape Colony in the aftermath of the British occupation in 1806.

An iconic battle during the South African War, this book details the Magersfontein battle and other lead up actions to this battle. Using archival collections of survivor and battle accounts never before published, combined with terrain research, this book creates a first-hand narrative for all sides.

The book considers the rise of the Sikh Soldier from the eighteenth century through to Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire, the consideration of Sikh warfare during the Anglo Sikh Wars leading to the employment of the Sikhs into the British Indian Army.