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Soldier Magazine - November 2024

Article as featured in Highlight: 'MacPhail tells these stories and more in elegant prose with assured scholarship. She supplements Orr’s own accounts with well-chosen contemporary memoirs by others, and her book benefits from generous colour plates of her subject’s uniform and personal memorabilia. It will appeal to anyone interested in Wellington’s roller-coaster campaigns through Iberia, and to those amused by the soft underbelly of 19th-century Edinburgh.–AM'
The Spurtle

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Military Model Scene

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Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

“Richard Batten’s book provides a rich, intriguing and insightful exploration of Devon society during the Great War, challenging the view that an increasingly dominant central state played in mobilising the Home Front by focusing instead on self-appointed ‘provincial patriots’ from among the country elites whose continuing influence was both crucial but also often resisted and resented by their compatriots.”
Dr Tim Rees, University of Exeter