Battlefield Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Cooksey, Jon

Lynch, Tim

Archaeology

The History Press

To supplement the Regulars, British regiments raised community-based service battalions during World War I. Units from the industrial cities of northern England often took the title "Pals" to signify their local origins. The camaraderie of these close-knit units soon turned to tragedy when entire neighborhoods were decimated on the Western Front. Barnsley is the first of a series of books on the Pals battalions, and is being reprinted to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the battle of the Somme, the Pals' most severe trial.

Barnsley Pals

History

Military

Pen_and_Sword

As German armored columns moved to seal off French ports from retreating British troops in 1940, Winston Churchill had few reserves he could commit. In an attempt to delay the Germans at Boulogne, Churchill sent in two battalions of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards in a hastily-organized amphibious landing. In Battleground Europe style, eyewitness accounts and original photographs provide previously unknown details. A guide is also provided to the monuments, battle sites and accommodations in this historic city as they are today.

Boulogne (Battleground Europe)

Pen and Sword Military

Pals: The 13th & 14th Battalions York & Lancaster Regiment

Leo Cooper

The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle and Loos was just as severe – as was the 1916 battle at Fromelles – and the battlefields are just as interesting to explore today. This volume in the Battle Lines series is the perfect guide to them. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened and why and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see. Their highly illustrated guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of warfare on the Western Front.

The Battles of French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles (Battle Lines: The Western Front by Car, By Bike and on Front)

Murland, Jerry

Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on the first day, 1 July 1916, when the British Army suffered around 60,000 casualties. That is why, on the centenary of that great battle, this new volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series is so timely. In a series of tours that can be walked, biked or driven, expert authors Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take the visitor along the eighteen-mile front line that was the starting point for the Somme offensive, from Gommecourt in the north to Maricourt in the south. The tours allow the visitor to trace the entire course of the opening day on the ground. In vivid detail the authors describe what happened, where it happened and why and which units were involved, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see.

The First Day of the Somme: Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916 (Battle Lines)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Pen & Sword Military

This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War. In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea King Helicopter on the Island. Their task was to destroy the 11 enemy aircraft located at the Airstrip on the Island and neutralize the Argentinean force posted there to guard it. The raid was successful and all the Aircraft were destroyed but debate still goes on as to whether the raid was a political gesture to give the British Public some action or whether it was to knock out the Airbase that could have made life difficult for the landings at San Carlos Bay later in the War. The book covers sections on: history of the engagement, training and planning involved, equipment used, weapons file, breakdown of forces engaged, consequences and controversies as well as personal accounts of those involved.

Pebble Island: The Falklands War 1982 (Elite Forces Operations Series)

Mackay, Francis

Americas

The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras – including Vimy Ridge – are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivalled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them.Visitors can trace for themselves the course of each battle across the modern landscape and gain a fascinating insight into the nature of the fighting in the area – and the wider conflict across the Western Front – throughout the war. The book covers the key battles fought in the northern sector of the Arras front, including the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge and battles at Villers au Bois, Oppy Wood and Gavrelle.   Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland have devised a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. They record what happened, where it happened and why, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see. Their guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of the war on the Western Front.

A Visitor's Guide: The Battles of Arras North: Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle

June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height. The Parachute Regiment has already been in action - 2 Para securing a hard fought victory at Darwin-Goose Green at a heavy price in killed and wounded including their CO, Lieutenant Colonel 'H' Jones, later awarded a posthumous VC. Now, two weeks later, as they look up at the long, frost shattered spines of rock which stab the air from the summit of Mount Longdon on the outer ring of the Stanley defenses, the 'toms' of 3 Para know it is their turn. As they prepare to assault their objectives - features code named 'wing forward', 'fly half' and 'full back'- the men of 3 Para know they are in for a fight. Just before 'zero' some of them are simply told to pray. This, the first in a new series on Special Operations, tells the story of 3 Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It was a battle which tested the discipline, comradeship and professionalism of the paras to the limit; it was a battle which witnessed another posthumous VC; it turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the entire Falklands Campaign.

3 Para - Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle

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Battlefield Archaeology

Barnsley Pals

Boulogne (Battleground Europe)

Pals: The 13th & 14th Battalions York & Lancaster Regiment

The Battles of French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles (Battle Lines: The Western Front by Car, By Bike and on Front)

The First Day of the Somme: Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916 (Battle Lines)

Barnsley Pals

Pebble Island: The Falklands War 1982 (Elite Forces Operations Series)

A Visitor's Guide: The Battles of Arras North: Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle

3 Para - Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle