Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix. Potter

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The march to Magdala: The Abyssinian War of 1868 (19th century military campaigns)

FREDERICK MYATT

Broken images: A journal (Men at war, 1)

History

JOHN GUEST

Military

Derek Bond is better remembered as an actor then a soldier and certainly deserves a measure of immortality for his portrayal of Nicolas Nickleby. His career as an actor, however, was very much in its infancy when Hitler invaded poland, and Bond abandon the boards for the drill square. His height naturally propelled him towards the Brigade of Guards and he was soon bulling his boots with the best of them. Though his background was not such as is normally associated with Officers in the Brigade, he was judged to be Officer material, commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and posted to the Third Battalion. More intensive training followed before the Battalion was sent to North Africa invalided home, earning an MC for his pains. Recuperation was followed by a spell as an instructor before he was reunited with the Third Batalion in italy. An unlucky swan into Florence, which he had mistakenly been led to believe the Germans has evacuated, resulted in his capture and he spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. This is not a book which sets out to expound the glories of war, nor does the author pretend that these were the best years of his life. He wrote it, as he says, because so many of his younger friends, to whom the war is a matter of history rather then memory, kept asking him what it was like. Whatever the reason, he tells the story of his military career with a degree of charm, wit and modesty which will come as no surprise to those familiar with the work of this highly talented actor- and writer.

Steady, Old Man! Don't You Know There's a War On? (Famous Regiments)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bond, Derek

Crew, Graeme Campbell Eley

Historical

The Kandyan Wars: The British army in Ceylon, 1803-1818 (19th century military campaigns)

Powell, Geoffrey

Asia

In this anthology of military history the author uses extracts from the diaries of soldiers from the time of the American War of Independence up to the Falklands War to reveal their thoughts and attitudes to facing up to the cannon, under shellfire and going over the top in World War I.

Sword and the Pen

The story of POW John Fletcher-Cooke's horrifying treatment at the hands of the Japanese. Based on a diary he kept throughout his captivity, this story, told without bitterness, reveals a man who refused to give way to despair. He also recounts how he revisited Japan and met his former captors.

Emperor's Guest (3rd Edition)

FLETCHER-COOKE,John

Community & Culture

In this 5th volume, Lord Anglesey tells of the spectacular exploits of the yeomanry of Britain, the Australasian and Indian mounted forces in the Middle East between 1914-1918. He establishes that the Light Horse of Australia and New Zealand proved themselves to be perhaps the most skilful and effective soldiers on horseback in British history.

A History of the British Cavalry 1914-1919, Volume V

Marquess, Of Anglesey

Anglesey George Charles Henry Victor Paget

Europe

The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.

For Love of Regiment: 1915-1994, Volume II

MESSENGER,Charles

<p>The 1914-1918 war was the first truly World War and the vast and devastating operations on the Western and Eastern Front dominate the history books. However, by the standards of previous military conflicts, the Palestine and Mesopotamia campaigns against the Turks were on an unprecedented scale.</p>

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY, VOL 6: 1914-1918 , MESOPOTAMIA

Ancient Civilizations

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