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Author : John Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the Second Queen's Royal Regiment written by John Davis and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Duckett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722720
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Burma written by Richard Duckett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population. The men of the SOE, trained in sabotage and guerrilla warfare, worked in the jungle, deep behind enemy lines, to frustrate the puppet Burmese government of Ba Maw and continue the fight against Hirohito's Japan in a theatre starved of resources. Here, Richard Duckett uses newly declassified documents from the National Archives to reveal for the first time the extent of British special forces' involvement - from the 1941 operations until beyond Burma's independence from the British Empire in 1948. Duckett argues convincingly that `Operation Character' and `Operation Billet' - large SOE missions launched in support of General Slim's XIV Army offensive to liberate Burma - rank among the most militarily significant of the SOE's secret missions. Featuring a wealth of photographs and accompanying material never before published, including direct testimony recorded by veterans of the campaign and maps from the SOE files, The SOE in Burma tells a compelling story of courage and struggle in during World War II
Author : Paul Chapman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850527732
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book A Haven in Hell written by Paul Chapman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talbot House Poperinghe was opened in November 1915 as a 'Soldiers Club' - a haven from hell - by two Chaplains of the 6th Division, Philip 'Tubby' Clayton and Neville Talbot. The house was dedicated to the memory of Gilbert Talbot, Neville's brother, who had been killed in in the afternoon counter-attack (set up to re-take the positions lost in the early morning Liquid Fire attack of the same day) at Hooge on 30 July 1915. For the following three years, except for a short period in 1918, the doors of Talbot House never closed and it became a 'home-from-home' for the officers and men of the British and Imperial armies of the time. Today Talbot House is a living museum offering a friendly greeting and a cup of tea to visitors on their arrival - a house rule established by 'Tubby' Clayton in 1915. Bringing to the reader the history of the house and its contents, the book brings to life the multitude of events that took place in and around it as well as telling the little-known stories of Clayton's frequent trips to the front line to minister to the men in the trenches around Ypres
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306781
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sepoys against the Rising Sun written by Kaushik Roy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army comprised British-led Indian units, British officered units of the Indian princely states and the British units attached to the Government of India. Based on the archival materials collected from India and the United Kingdom, Sepoys against the Rising Sun assesses the combat/military/battlefield effectiveness of the Indian Army against the IJA during World War II. The volume is focussed on the tactical innovations and organizational adaptations which enabled the sepoys to overcome the Japanese in the trying terrain of Burma.
Author : A. Michael Brander
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Royal Scots written by A. Michael Brander and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citater fra krigshistoriske værker og krigsdagbøger. - Introduktion til bogen ved Brian Horrocks.
Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811708268
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Arnhem 1944 written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Exciting overview of the World War II battle made famous by the classic movie and book A Bridge Too Far * Boots-on-the-ground story of British paratroopers fighting off Germans in Holland during Operation Market Garden * Masterly analysis of why the operation failed * Draws from the personal experiences of more than 500 participants * Written by an accomplished military historianMartin Middlebrook has written numerous works of military history, including the classic The First Day on the Somme (978-1-84415-465-4). He lives in England
Author : Kingsley M. Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952959700
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Through Adversity written by Kingsley M. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. D. Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845741501
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1920-1950 written by H. D. Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Queen s Own Royal West Kent Regiment from the aftermath of the Great War in 1920 down to the wake of the Second World War in 1950. The RWK did garrison duty in India and the occupied Rhineland in the early 1920s, and in policing the turbulent north and south of Ireland during the Irish independence struggle. The author calls 1923-32 the lean years when post-war cutbacks hit the RWK hard. After 1933, however, the growing prospect of war with Nazi Germany meant gradual rearmament and partial mechanisation. In 1938-39 the RWK s second battalion policed Palestine against Arab unrest. The final months before war saw hasty preparation and expansion; and after war broke out most battalions crossed to Franceand Belgium as part of the BEF. Here they found themselves on the old battlefields of the Great War and even at Oudenarde, scene of one of Marlborough; s victories. Swept up in the German Blitzkrieg of May 1940, the 6th and 7th battalions were overrun at Doullens and Albert; while the Queen s Own Brigade were embarked in the Dunkirk evacuation. From June 1940 new battalions were recruited; the 2nd Battalion defended Malta and the 4th and 5th battalions joined the Eighth Army in Egypt; fighting at the battles of Alam Halfa and Alamein and also seeing service in Iraq. The 1st and 6th battalions joined Operation Torch , the Anglo-American invasion of French Algeria in November 1942; and fought the Germans in the tough Tunisian campaign. The 6th battalion was present at the invasion of Sicily, fighting in the fooothills of Mount Etna and was joined by the 1st and 5th battalions in the Italian campaigns, fighting at Cassino and slogging up the Peninsula to Florence, the Gothic Line and finally entering Austria. Meanwhile the 1st battalion had been in Greece, where it was caught up in the politicial in-fighting in Athens in December 1944; and the 4th battalion had formed part of Slim s forgotten army in Burma. In the five years after the war the RWK underwent extensive re-organisation while serving in Egypt and occupied Germany and in Malaya. With a Roll of Honour, 30 maps and 42 photographs. The text is accompanied by six appendices listing honours and awards, officers in campaigns, Home Guard units, Colonels and CO s etc.
Author : N. W. Routledge
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anti-aircraft Artillery, 1914-55 written by N. W. Routledge and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1994 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, the Royal Artillery began an acivity quite unlike any which had gone before - the engagement of a target moving at speed and in three dimensions in space. The fourth volume in a series tracing the history of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, this book covers the development and operational success of anti-aircraft artillery.
Author : Philip Stibbe
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850524768
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Return Via Rangoon written by Philip Stibbe and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one young officer's war story about training and inspiration in the Burmese jungle behind enemy lines. Beaten up and water tortured, yet only giving his captors false information, Stibbe was moved around Burma until he was eventually imprisoned in Rangoon jail. Now stricken with Parkinson's disease, probably as a result of his prison diet, Stibbe with his eldest son, also a soldier, has revised his book and this edition published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Wingate's second triumphant Chindit expedition.
Author : Jack Richards
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473831806
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Quintinshill Conspiracy written by Jack Richards and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered ahighly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.
Author : H. D. Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847343666
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1951 - 1961 written by H. D. Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814634700
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book A History of South East Asia written by Arthur Cotterell and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor. Concisely written and filled with historical anecdotes, this authoritative volume is presented in three parts, covering both mainland and maritime Southeast Asia
Author : Henry Maule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scobie, Hero of Greece written by Henry Maule and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Moncrieff Grierson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scarlet Into Khaki written by James Moncrieff Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. F. Becke
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ISBN 13 : 9781847347398
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a And 2b written by A. F. Becke and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2a of the official Order of Battle of the Divisions of the British Army in the Great War compiled by Major A. F. Becke lists the Territorial Mounted Divisions & 1st Line Territorial Force Divisions. 1st, 2nd, 2nd/2nd, 4th and Yeomanry Mounted Divs; 42nd - 56th Inf Divs. together with appendices on changes in the establishment and composition of Territorial divisions on the Western Front; the 2nd mounted division (Egypt); the 52nd (Lowland) division (Gallipoli); and the 53rd (Welsh) division (Palestine). Part 2b of Major A. F. Becke s official Order of Battle of the British Army in the Great War continues the listing of the Territorial Army divisions as well as the Home Service divisions: 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions & Home Service Divisions. 57th - 69th Inf Divs; 71st - 73rd Home Service Divs: 74th (Yeomanry) Div, 75th Div. With appendices on the Central Force and its commanders; Graduated battalikons and the 90-mm field gun; the work of the Army Ordnance Dept; and the War Establishments of the 57th (2nd W. Lancs) division in France in 1918; the 58th (2nd/1st London) division in Palestine, 1918; the 73rd division in England, 1917; the 69th (2nd/E.Anglian) division in England, 1918; and the Cyclist DIvision, England, 1918.
Author : Norman E. H. Litchfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950820521
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Territorial Artillery, 1908-1988 written by Norman E. H. Litchfield and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
