To the Warrior His Arms
To the Warrior His Arms

Author: Frank Steer

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844153299

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This is the definitive history of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, responsible for the logistic support to the British Army for most of the 20th century. Brigadier Frank Steer covers the ultra-dangerous activity of bomb disposal in WWII right through to terrorist devices in Northern Ireland.

Dunkirk to D-Day
Dunkirk to D-Day

Author: Philip Hamlyn Williams

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781526794307

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At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result. The story begins in Victorian south London. It goes out to Portuguese East Africa and then to Malaya, before being caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. Between the wars, its leading characters work at Pilkington, Dunlop and English Steel; they serve in Gallipoli, Gibraltar and Malta; they transform the way a mechanized army is supplied. They supply in the desert and the jungle. They build massive depots, and relationships with motor companies here and in the USA. After the war they work for companies driving the post-war economy: Vickers, Dunlop and Rootes. Many died, exhausted, years before their time.

Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
Anglo-Zulu War, 1879

Author: Harold E. Raugh

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 0810874679

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The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the most humiliating defeat in British military history-the Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879-and one of its most heroic feats of martial arms-the defense of Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879. While lasting only six months, it is one of the most examined, studied, and debated conflicts in Victorian military history. Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions to this popular field of historical study. From the student or neophyte to the study of the Anglo-Zulu War, its battles, and its opponents to the more experienced historian or scholar, this selected bibliography is a must for anyone interested in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles
Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles

Author: Ray Westlake

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1998-02-05

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1473813271

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A revised and updated collector’s reference guide to British Army metal shoulder titles from all the various units. Newly revised and updated, Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteer, Territorial and Cadet forces. Details of some two thousand patterns are set out in the text and illustrated by photographs from the author’s unique collection. Ray Westlake is a recognised authority on British Army lineage and gives dates of formation, amalgamation, disbandment and changes in designation for all regiments. Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles is recognised by collectors and military historians alike as the definitive reference work. Today, some sixteen years after it first appeared, the book remains the only reliable guide to an increasingly popular form of collecting. This edition, with two supplements, brings it abreast of the last round of mergers and amalgamations.