A Pictorial History of Queen Victoria
Victoria's long and illustrious reign saw Britain ruling the World's biggest Empire- but it came with heavy cost. A myth has grown up that apart from involvement in the Crimean, a heroic stand against the Zulus at Rorke's Drift, and the Boer War which was raging as she died, this was an age of peace and prosperity. Not a bit of it. In reality her armed forces were locked ind eadly conflicts across the globe, from the Punjab to New Zealand, from Abyssinia to Belize.
Political journalist and military historian Ian Hernon brings to life these conflicts as they appeared to those fighting them and to those they left at home. He has brough together illustrations from the time eagerly devoured by an anxious public, but which have remained largely unseen since....
