Infantry: A Global History
Jun 2025 · Pen and Sword Military
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Explores the history of infantry from ancient conflict to modern warfare, examining its roles, development, and impact in both combat and political contexts. The infantryman always bears the brunt according to Field-Marshal Wavell in 1945. The Poor Bloody Infantry, The Grunts on the Ground, the infantry have often been seen as the humble, indeed shunned, relations of others, from cavalry to tanks. This book is their story, one from the dawn of human conflict to the present day, a study that looks round the world to consider fighting, weaponry, recruitment, contexts and impact. Infantry as the shock of assault as well as firepower, as the force in state-to-state conflict and in civil warfare, in symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare, are considered, as are the different accounts of development that are offered. Central to the military and to combat, infantry has also served many non-combat roles, notably as the arm of government. Indeed, infantry can be crucial to political history and nation-building, from coups to iconic battles
Explores the history of infantry from ancient conflict to modern warfare, examining its roles, development, and impact in both combat and political contexts. The infantryman always bears the brunt according to Field-Marshal Wavell in 1945. The Poor Bloody Infantry, The Grunts on the Ground,...
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Jeremy Black has recently retired as Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Graduating from Cambridge with a starred first, he did postgraduate work at Oxford and then taught at Durham, eventually as professor, before moving to Exeter in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States, where he has held visiting chairs at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He was appointed to the Order of Membership of the British Empire for services to stamp design. His books include The British Seaborne Empire, Contesting History and Rethinking World War Two.
Jeremy Black has recently retired as Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Graduating from Cambridge with a starred first, he did postgraduate work at Oxford and then taught at Durham, eventually as professor, before moving to Exeter in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australia, ...
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