Recently amalgamated into the regular forces, the WRAC had a historic role in opening up military careers to women; the Corps was particularly effective working with civilians in Northern Ireland.

Women's Royal Army Corps

Bidwell, Shelford

History

Pen_and_Sword

Churchill's personal account, based on his own experiences, of the Boer War of 1899-1902.

BOER WAR: London to Ladysmith: Ian Hamilton's March

Churchill, Winston

Biographies & Memoirs

A re-examination of Zulu War hero Redvers Buller, who was blamed for British defeats in the Boer War of 1899-1902.

Buller: A Scapegoat? A Life of General Sir Redvers Buller, 1839-1908

Powell, Geoffrey

Historical

The book follows Orem's passage from boy-sailor in the sail training vessel Worchester just after the turn of the century to corridors of Admiralty by the end of the World War II. It tells of his transition from the Merchant to the Royal Navy just before the Great War, of his early experience in submarines under the tutelage of some of the pioneers of his revolutionary technology, and of his eventual appointment to Captain (S) 5th. Flotilla at HMSS Dolphin, the submarine training school at Fort Blockhouse.

Rogue's Yarn: The Sea-going Life a Captain 'Joe' Oram

Harris, Wendy

Leaders & Notable People

Britain's only experience of a peacetime draft, which saw conscripts fighting conventional battles in Korea and conducting a long-term guerrilla war against the Mau Mau.

SIX CAMPAIGNS: National Servicemen at War, 1948-1960

Walker, Adrian

Military

The Liverpool Pals were the first of the neighborhood-based units to be raised by the British for service in World War I, after the heavy losses in the regular army. Casualties after nearly two years of war eventually caused the units to be withdrawn in early 1918, but the 17th Battalion had the unique experience of being sent to Russia for operations against the Bolsheviks which lasted well into 1919.

LIVERPOOL PALS: 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Battalions, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment (SERVICE BATTALIONS, THE KING'S)

Maddocks, Graham

Europe

With the Royal Navy tied up at Jutland for much of World War I, surplus naval reservists were formed into a Royal Naval Division to fight in the trenches; the Hood Battalion was one of the division's most distinguished units.

Hood Battalion

Sellers, Leonard

Americas

Britain and France fought Russia in the Crimean War of 1854-1856, a campaign that saw the Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, and Tolstoy manning the guns of Sevastopol.

Crimean War

Blake, R

For a decade after World War II, Britain's volunteer army was supplemented by draftees, or "national servicemen." Korea proved to be their greatest trial.

BARREN PLACE: National Servicemen in Korea 1950-1954

World

Using much previously-unpublished photographic, art and manuscript material from the Liddle Collection in the Library of the University of Leeds, this book aims to bring readers closer to the British soldiers, sailors and airmen of World War I. Contemporary evidence has captured much individual experience of the battlefield, and changes in attitude and culture as the war moved people from their familiar daily round to hugely-changed surroundings, through prolonged months, then years, of challenge. Civilian life is reflected too, from the industrial scene and rationing to conscientious objectors. The topics covered include pre-war society, the call the arms, war in the air, the Dardenelles, the maritime challenge, soldiering in distant parts, the Home Front, soldier and civilian captivity, soldiering on the Western Front, and the Armistice and beyond. Peter Liddle has written 12 previous World War I books, and the Channel 4 television series, "The 1916 Battle of the Somme", was based on his work.

The Worst Ordeal: Britons at Home Abroad, 1914-1918

Liddle, Peter

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