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From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier.Since 1660 the army has evolved and adapted, but the social organisation of the men has changed less, with the major combat arms retaining many of the characteristics familiar to those who fought at Blenheim, Waterloo and the Somme. The Duke of Marlborough, who built up the British army to become a world-class fighting force in the 1660s, would recognise in the tired heroes of Helmand the descendants of the men he led to victory at Blenheim over three hundred years ago.‘Soldiers’ is exhaustively researched, and Holmes’s affection for the soldier shines through on every page. Above all, this book is brimming with great stories, from the chaos of the battlefield to the fug of the barrack-room, from Ulster to Bengal, from Flanders’ fields to the Afghan hills. This is a magisterial social history of the British soldier – and Richard Holmes’s fitting last tribute to the British soldier to whom he was so devoted.

SHE WAS HIS WIFE–THE ONLY WOMAN HE HAD EVER LOVED…Yet tragedy had torn Dusty Conrad from her loving arms. Now Dusty was back, and everyone in the small town of Old Orchard thought he'd come home to stay. To be the man Jolie Conrad still loved. But they were wrong.Dusty had come back to say his final goodbyes. To take in his arms for the last time the sweet beauty he'd once wed. But what Dusty didn't realize was how much he still felt for Jolie. And when this husband and wife found themselves sharing a house, everyone knew what these two had yet to discover.That some things, like love, were meant to be forever.

The love of a lifetime…After losing her heart – and baby – to a disastrous romance, Lilly Lockett has her mind on only one thing: her job. She’s come to the Silver Horn Ranch to look after the Calhoun family patriarch, nothing more… Until she encounters rakish ranch foreman Rafe Calhoun!Playboy Rafe knows his grandfather’s nurse is all wrong for him. His approach to relationships is a few dates, then move on – but an attempt at a casual affair with Lilly soon becomes all too serious… for both of them. Rafe has to make a choice: to keep flying solo, or risk everything for love.