The Black Watch : fighting in the front line, 1899-2006 / Victoria Schofield ; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales.

Author
Schofield, Victoria [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Head of Zeus, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xxxvi, 828 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

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    "Victoria Schofield's new book, The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line 1899-2006, tells the heroic and inspiring story of the Scottish Black Watch regiment in wars across the world across the 20th and 21st centuries. Victoria Schofield draws on diaries, letters and interviews to weave the many strands of the story into an epic narrative of a heroic body of officers and men."--Publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 626-795) and index.
    Contents
    • Chasing back the Boers
    • Balancing power
    • 1914: The Great War
    • 1915: trench warfare
    • hell on earth
    • 1916: Attrition
    • 1917: Blown to pieces
    • 1918: Weary of war
    • Their name liveth for evermore
    • 1939: Marching off to war
    • 1940: a colossal military disaster
    • 1941: All hell broke loose
    • 1942: The desert was their battlefield
    • 1943: Fighting in the front line
    • 1944: Only numbers can annihilate
    • 1945: Unconditional surrender
    • The illusion of peace
    • Korea: the forgotten war
    • Small wars: Kenya and British Guiana
    • What the Black Watch does is news
    • Emergency tours in Northern Ireland
    • Travelling the seven seas
    • Countering terror
    • Confronting the Cold War
    • Closure of empire
    • Iraq: a grave and gathering danger
    • Picking up the pieces
    • Turning a page of history.
    ISBN
    • 9781784979973
    • 178497997X
    OCLC
    982090127
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