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The Black Watch : fighting in the front line, 1899-2006 / Victoria Schofield ; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales.
Author
Schofield, Victoria
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
UA652.B6 S359 2017
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Subject(s)
Great Britain
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History, Military
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Great Britain Army Regiment of Foot, 42nd
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History
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Great Britain Army Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
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History
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Great Britain Army Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
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History
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Great Britain Army Black Watch (Royal Regiment of Scotland)
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History
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Writer of foreword
Charles III, King of Great Britain, 1948-
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Summary note
"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.
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ISBN
9781784979973
178497997X
OCLC
982090127
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