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Regulations for the
Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry, and Instructions for their
Conduct in the Field.
Published in the year before Waterloo, this manual gives
detailed standard British army regulations for drilling with, loading, and
firing rifles, as well as for skirmishing, mounting guards, and forming
pickets and patrols. Invaluable for re-enactors, war-gamers and all those
interested in the Napoleonic Wars. Illustrated with a series of endpaper
diagrams giving the notes for bugle calls, instructions for formations to
be adopted in extending lines, retreating, forming chains etc.
Order code NMP5898. 75
pages. Book price £9.50.
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The Liberation of
Bulgaria by Wentworth Huyshe.
A vividly topical eye-witness account of a key episode in
the long struggle between Islam and Christendom. The author reported the
1877 war between the Russian and Ottoman Turk empires that resulted in a
Russian victory and the establishment of Bulgaria after centuries of
Turkish rule from both sides of the lines. Written some two decades later,
this book gives an unsparing narrative of a war correspondent’s war,
complete with many fine - some of them gruesome - illustrations and battle
maps showing the fall of Plevna. The tone and style of the book is that of
a graphic Victorian journalist rather than an objective historian, but it
is none the worse for that, and gives the reader a good idea of the
endemic religious and ethnic hatreds that still trouble the Balkans to
this very day.
Order code NMP5919.
pages316. Book price £14.00.
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With the Camel Corps up
the Nile by Count Gleichen.
An intriguing account of the part played by the Camel
Corps in the 1885 expedition mounted - too late, in the author’s opinion
- by the Gladstone Government in the forlorn hope of saving Khartoum from
the forces of the Mahdi, and rescuing General Gordon. Gleichen was an
aristocratic officer of the Grenadier Guards seconded - to his great joy -
to the Camel Corps from garrison duty in Dublin. His book is a record of
battles fought and won, of dangers run and difficulties overcome - and of
ultimate frustration when the ‘worst possible news’ arrives of
Gordon’s death. En route the reader learns a great deal about the
behaviour and management of camels. With four appendices on the Camel
Corp’s composition and losses, and illustrated with the author’s own
talented and witty drawings and a map.
Order code NMP5911. 320 pages.
Book price £14.00.
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The K.O.S.B. in the Great
War by Captain Stair Gillon.
In all the Kings Own Scottish Borderers totalled fourteen
battalions during the Great War of which eight saw action, most of them on
the Western Front but battalions also served at Gallipoli, in the
Egypt/Palestine campaign and, for a brief period, in Italy. There were no
battalions in India, Macedonia or Mesopotamia. Altogether some 7,000 died,
66 Battle Honours and four VCs were awarded, all four were won on the
Western Front and one of them, CSM J Skinner who was subsequently killed,
had the unique honour of being escorted to his grave in Vlamertinghe by
six fellow VCs as pall-bearers.
The author has tackled his history on a battalion rather than
chronological basis, and after a brief but interesting account of the
early history of the regiment (formed in 1689) he leads the reader into
the consecutive history of each of the fighting battalions in the order in
which they entered the Great War. He divides his account into a series of
books, each dealing with a separate battalion or group of battalions, each
with their separate chapters beginning in each case with Chapter I. He
begins with the 2nd Battalion which was in Dublin when war broke out, part
of 13th Brigade, 5th Division. It arrived in France on 15th August 1914
with the original BEF and was soon in action at Mons and Le Cateau. The
battalion remained in the same brigade and division on the Western Front
throughout the war, apart from three and a half months, mid-December 1917
to early April 1918, when the division was sent to Italy. The 1st
Battalion was in Lucknow, India; it arrived back in the UK in December
1914 and was allotted to the newly formed 29th Division. In April 1915 it
went to Gallipoli and, when that campaign ended, transferred to France in
March 1916 after a two-month break in Egypt. The 1st Battalion also
remained in the same brigade (87th) and division throughout the war.
Book III is concerned with the Territorial battalions of which there were
two before the war, the 4th (Border) Battalion and the 5th (Dumfries and
Galloway). Both these battalions were in 52nd Lowland Division, a
Territorial formation, and fought in it at Gallipoli and in Egypt and
Palestine. In April 1918 the division was sent to France where the 1/5th
was transferred to 103rd Brigade in the re-constituted 34th Division. Then
comes the 6th (Service ) Battalion which arrived in France in May 1915
with 9th (Scottish) Division, followed by 7th and 8th (Service) Battalions
in 15th (Scottish) Division in July; all three fought on the Western Front
and Loos was their first major battle. The final Book VI deals with the
battalions that remained in the UK - 3rd (Special Reserve), 9th and 10th.
This is a competent piece of work, based on war diaries, letters, personal
accounts and diaries, much of which had been assembled before Stair Gillon
was called in to do the job.
Order code NMP7434. 468 pages.
Book price £22.00.
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The British Army
1939-45 (3) - The Far East by Martin J Brayley & Mike Chappell
After a series of costly defeats the 'forgotten' 14th Army on the
India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical
expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that units supplied from the
air could operate deep behind enemy lines. In 1944 General Slim's troops
decisively smashed Japan's last offensive at Imphal and Kohima; and over
the next year they drove the enemy relentlessly back through Burma,
reducing them to starving fugitives by the final victory in August 1945.
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Army Commandos
1940-45 by Mike Chappell
The period from early 1940 to the end of 1942 was a time of gloom and
uncertainty for the British, who stood alone against the assembled might
of the Axis powers. They badly needed a champion, and were to find this
in a small force of soldiers who inspired them with a series of daring
raids against the coasts of 'occupied Europe', becoming the heroes of
the British public and of the British Prime Minister who had created
them.
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The British Army
1965-80 by Major G Smith & Angus McBride
Book serial number Osprey MA71. Price £8.99.
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The Black Watch by
Charles Grant and Michael Youens
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Osprey MA999.
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The South Wales
Borderers by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham & Michael Roffe
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Osprey MA047.
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The King's Regiment by
Alan Shepperd & Michael Roffe
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Osprey MA021.
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Montgomery's Desert
Army by John Wilkinson-Latham & G A Embleton
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Osprey MA66.
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The Gurkha Rifles
by J B R Nicholson & Michael Roffe
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Osprey MA41.
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The Connaught
Rangers by Alan Shepherd & Michael Youens
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Osprey MA12.
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The Royal Artillery
by W Y Carman & Michael Roffe
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Osprey MA25.
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Royal Scots Greys
by Charles Grant & Michael Youens
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Osprey MA26.
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The
Grenadier Guards by General Sir David Fraser & Angus McBride
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British Infantry
Equipments (1) 1808-1908 by Mike Chappell
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Osprey MA107.
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