Charles Carrington
Description
Charles Edmund Carrington, MC, was a scholar, Professor of History at Cambridge University, Educational Secretary to Cambridge University Press and a historian specialising in the British Empire and Commonwealth, a Professor of Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the author of a number of books academic, learned and biographical. He was a decorated volunteer British Army officer, in World War I and again in World War II.
Books
The British Overseas
A classic study of the expansion of the British peoples overseas. This volume deals with the early British ventures overseas from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Professor Carrington describes the establishment of the American colonies, the activities of the East India Company, the exploration of the South Seas and British activities in the Cape and the East.
Rudyard Kipling
Poetry of the anti-Jacobin
Soldier from the wars returning
Case study of the Western Front during World War I. Based on the author's front-line experiences during two major wars.