Overview
The Royal Welch Fusiliers were present at all Marlborough's great victories; they were one of the six Minden regiments; they fought throughout the Peninsula and were present at Wellington's final glorious victory at Waterloo. In The Great War their officers included the writer poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; their 22 battalions fought not just on the Western Front but at Gallipoli, in Egypt, Palestine, Salonika, Mesopotamia and Italy. In WW2 they won battle honours from the Reichswald to Kohima. More recently they have served with distinction in the war against terror in the Middle East. Like so many famous regiments the RWF are no longer in the British Army's order of battle having been amalgamated into the Royal Regiment of Wales. But this fine book is the lasting memorial to a fiercely proud and greatly admired regiment. SELLING POINTS: The definitive history of a famous regiment, now disbanded. In over 300 years the REgiment has missed very few battle honours. Proudly remembered and loved nationwide and not just in Wales. Illustrated
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Glover ,
Jonathon Riley
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781844156535
ISBN 10: 1844156532
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 20 October 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Michael Glover was educated at Oundle and St. John's Collage, Cambridge. During the war he served in Tunisia and Italy. From 1947 to 1970 he worked for the British Council, for the last nine years as Head of Educational Television and Radio. He is a distinguished military historian and his works include: 1815: The Armies at Waterloo; Rorke's Drift; Legacy of Glory; The Fight for the Channel Ports and An Improvised War: the Abyssinian Campaign of 1940-1941 Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley is a General Officer with multinational operational command experience at all levels from platoon to corps in theatres from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, the Gulf, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. General Riley has been awarded the DSO and NATO Meritorious Service Medal and is an Officer of the Legion of Merit of the United States of America. He holds the degrees of MA and PhD in modern history and has written numerous books. He is currently Visiting Professor in War Studies at King's College London, a member of the British Commission for Military History, and Chairman of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Museum Trust.
