Description:
This book spotlights Britain's "citizen army" to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained--and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.
Brief description:
Stephen M. Miller is Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor and History Department Chair at the University of Maine. He is the author of George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa.