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Author : David Erskine
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ISBN 13 : 9781847340795
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scots Guards 1919-1955 written by David Erskine and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book The Scots Guards, 1919-1955 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. Foot Guards. Scots Guards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scots Guards, 1919-1955. Compiled by David Erskine. [With Plates and Maps.]. written by Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. Foot Guards. Scots Guards and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 710 pages
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Download or read book The Scots Guards, 1919-1955 written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Loraine Petre
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Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918 written by Francis Loraine Petre and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randall Nicol
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781911096078
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Till the Trumpet Sounds Again: the Scots Guards 1914-19 in Their Own Words written by Randall Nicol and published by Helion. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of soldiers at war against the background the two battalions of the Scots Guards who served in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. The author's purpose is to display - by getting in amongst them - what they knew, saw, heard, felt and experienced around them and who they were as people. It is clear that the author has attempted to look and listen mostly through these men's eyes and ears - and sometimes through those of others who watched and listened nearby. In conveying how the war appeared to them, the author has not sought to achieve any wider view - nor to explain more than what is considered to be essential. What went on when the men were not in the trenches or fighting a battle holds just as much interest as when they were. The book is written in a chronological, narrative form - using as a basis the war diaries of the battalions, and supplemented from August 1915 by the two volumes of Cuthbert Headlam's History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918. The main content of the book stems from diaries, letters, notes, occasional pieces of verse, military documents and reports - as well as some press cuttings and any relevant published works. There are three key elements to the book: the first is that a great deal of the material used forms part of private collections and thus has never before; second is the intensive research which has been conducted into individual officers and soldiers; the third element is the blending together of all the research into a coherent whole so that there is a steady flow in an extraordinary story which is full of shocks and surprises, enjoyment and laughter - and (even in the most inauspicious situations) sorrow, joy and determination. These officers and men were ordinary human beings who experienced extraordinary events. In all other ways, they behaved as soldiers do, in that they did what they had to do - often misbehaving out of the line, but rarely in it; enjoying what there was to enjoy and grumbling about much else. Among themselves they had their personal likes and dislikes, but all had to depend on each other and work together. Because of the comradeship borne of the shared experience at close quarters, they got to know each other very well indeed. One cannot be but humbled and moved by their resilience amid dire adversity - not least in the winter conditions of 1916-17. It is extremely important when reading to remember that they had no idea how long the war would continue - and it is not surprising how unexpected and unreal the announcement of the Armistice was for many. The Scots Guardsmen's understanding of what others were doing at any time was limited to what they saw and heard - very rarely anywhere near the whole story and often inaccurate (and sometimes, however unintentionally, unfair). Those British soldiers who took part in the Retreat from Mons saw and were well aware of the plight of the refugees - and they could see behind them the fires as the advancing Germans burnt farms and villages. Those who landed at Ostend and Zeebrugge early in October 1914 were similarly well aware of the plight of refugees. Those in the area east of the Somme battlefields after the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line in March 1917 saw the scale of calculated destruction. Those in the last weeks of the war who advanced across largely unfought-over Belgian and French territory (in the case of the Scots Guards, east of Cambrai) first met pathetically grateful civilians. Whatever else the war was about, it was also about liberation.
Author : Sir Frederick Maurice
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Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Scots Guards written by Sir Frederick Maurice and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Maurice
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Download or read book The History of the Scots Guards ... written by Frederick Maurice and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank van Lunteren
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612004288
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spearhead of the Fifth Army written by Frank van Lunteren and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent read for anyone interested in men at war, as well as for students of the airborne operations, the Italian Campaign, and the war in Europe” (The NYMAS Review). Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Col. Reuben Tucker’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples—a ghost town at first sight. The residents soon expressed their joy at being liberated. Four weeks later, the 504th—upon the special request of Gen. Mark Clark—spearheaded Fifth Army’s drive through the notorious Volturno Valley—the Germans’ next stand. January 1944 seemed to promise a period of rest, but the landing at Anzio meant deployment for the paratroopers again, this time by ship. A bombing raid during their beach landing was a forecast of eight weeks of bitter fighting. Holding the right flank of the beachhead along the Mussolini Canal, the paratroopers earned their nickname “Devils in Baggy Pants” for their frontline incursions into enemy lines, as well as their stubborn defense of the Allied salient. In this work, H Company’s attachment to the British 5th Grenadier Guards—and the Victoria Cross action of Maj. William Sidney—are painted in comprehensive light for the first time. The story of honorary member of the 504th PIR, Italian veteran Antonio Taurelli, is also included. Using war diaries, personal journals, letters, and interviews with nearly eighty veterans, an up-close view of the 504th PIR in the Fifth Army’s Italy Campaign is here in unsurpassed detail. From the author of two previous works on the 504th PIR, The Battle of the Bridges and Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper, this book shows that the Italian theater was second to none in terms of grueling combat, courage against formidable odds, and an extremely expert enemy.
Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139496026
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign written by Jonathan Fennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that 'the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale'. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army's performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942.
