The Guards Came Through
An Illustrated History of the Guards in the Great War
An illustrated account of the Household Cavalry and Foot Guards in The Great War.The story of the Guards in the First World War epitomises the shattering historical significance of the conflict. These elite regiments fought in every major engagement on the Western Front - Mons, Loos, the Aisne, the Somme, Passchendaele - and sustained incalculable losses. Whole divisions were wiped out, and new regiments created. Cavalrymen spent the war behind machine-guns while their horses remained tethered and terrified.Simon Doughty's account is the first truly comprehensive record of the regiments' contribution to the war, describing every action in whi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-908990-57-0
- EAN: 9781908990570
- Produktnummer: 18666300
- Verlag: Third Millennium Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B25.8 cm x D1.8 cm 794 g
- Auflage: Main
- Abbildungen: 200 colour and mono images.
- Gewicht: 794
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Colonel Simon Doughty was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1976 and retired from the Army in 2009, having travelled widely and served in England, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Germany and Holland. A graduate of War Studies at Kings College, London, Simon is the Editor of The Guards Magazine and a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Society of Army Historical Research and the Army Records Society.
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