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Everything you want to know about UK infantry in France,1914,
By A Customer
This review is from: British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914 (Hardcover)
If you really need to know which of the Old Contemptibles went where and did what, it's here.Data is rather spotty, some battalions list names of officers and number of men in the battalion as it shipped, others just numbers. Others nothing. Apparently, this is data extracted from a lot of regimental histories. Some of those quotes are very good. The number of battalions that spent Xmas, 1914 making peace with the german's across the way is interesting, as well as the efforts by both staffs to get the boys back in fighting trim, and the boys efforts to keep the peace. Who says the Vietnam war invented the peacenik trooper! This book is a good one for a reader tired of the overviews, who wants to see just who went where and who arrived when, and how many were still standing a few days later. Good read if you feel the need for going beyond the usual six inch depth of most books in this area. I plan to get the one on the Somme soon. |
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British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914 by Ray Westlake (Hardcover - Jan. 1998)
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