The Royal Green Jackets
The Royal Green Jackets

Author: Christopher Wilkinson-Latham

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Published: 1975-01-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780850452495

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The Royal Green Jackets are widely acknowledged as innovators who developed much of the thinking of the British infantry in the fields of tactics and training, mobility and marksmanship, equipment, management and individual initiative from the 18th century onwards. They were the first to wear green uniforms as camouflage rather than red and to fire the more accurate rifle instead of muskets. This book examines the history of the component regiments of the Royal Green Jackets and describes the action of individual regiments in the Napoleonic Wars, Boer Wars, and World Wars. Numerous illustrations and photographs depict the Green Jackets' uniforms in vivid detail.

Swift and Bold
Swift and Bold

Author: Andrew Pringle

Publisher: Third Millenium Pub Limited

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903942697

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Describes the origins, characteristics and ethos of The Green Jackets culminating in their formation as The Royal Green Jackets in 1966. This portrait records the evolution of the Regiment from its illustrious forebears, and documents the Green Jackets approach to leadership. It takes a look inside the workings of the regimental system.

Squaddie
Squaddie

Author: Steven McLaughlin

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-05-20

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1780572026

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From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'. After the tragic death of his brother, and in the dark days following 9/11, McLaughlin felt compelled to fulfil his lifelong ambition to serve in the army. He followed his late brother into the elite Royal Green Jackets and passed the arduous Combat Infantryman's Course at the age of 31. Thereafter, McLaughlin found himself submerged in a world of casual violence. Squaddie is a snapshot of infantry soldiering in the twenty-first century. It takes us into the heart of an ancient institution that is struggling to retain its tough traditions in a rapidly changing world. All of the fears and anxieties that the modern soldier carries as his burden are laid bare, as well as the occasional joys and triumphs that can make him feel like he is doing the best job in the world. This is an account of army life by someone who has been there and done it.

In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia
In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia

Author: Charles Blackmore

Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781590483503

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In February 1985, fifty years after T. E. Lawrence was killed in a motor bicycle accident in Dorset, Captain Charles Blackmore and three others of the Royal Green Jackets Regiment set out to retrace Lawrence's exploits in the Arab Revolt during the First World War. Using Lawrence's classic account, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," as their guide, the members of this expedition spent twenty-nine days with meagre supplies and under extreme conditions, riding and walking to the source of the Lawrence legend. What the young men discovered about Lawrence and the legend was matched only by what they discovered about themselves. Blackmore insisted on living as Lawrence did: as a true Bedouin. But it did not take long for the romantic images to vanish. Extreme heat, cold, virtually no food and little water, an inability to communicate with the Arabs and a growing realisation of their lack of preparation, all combined to turn their thoughts and fears to conspiracy. The author bases his account on a diary he kept of the expedition. As we explore and sometimes test the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia," we begin to understand that this was a commemorative venture in the best sense: in modern Jordan it is unlikely ever to be repeated.