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Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
1849165505
EAN
9781849165501
Date of Publication
2012-04-26
Publication Name
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Type
Hardback
Release Title
Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899
Artist
Victoria Schofield
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Publisher
Quercus
ISBN-10
1849165505
ISBN-13
9781849165501
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172738292

Product Key Features

Book Title
Highland Furies : the Black Watch 1739-1899
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Military / General
Genre
History
Author
Victoria Schofield
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2.5 in
Item Weight
45.9 Oz
Item Length
6.2 in
Item Width
9.5 in

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Reviews
'an absorbing book that lives up to its name as the 'Official Regimental History'. It is supported by more than 170 pages of appendices, bibliography, maps, and notes, as well as a brilliant array of illustrations' Military History Monthly.-- Military History Monthly, 'Schofield's attention to detail and obvious relish for the task has produced a memorable celebration of the valiant role played in our history by The Black Watch' Scottish Field.-- Scottish Field, 'Each campaign, battle and tour of duty [is] allocated its due place ... it is lively ... recounting of the regiment's experiences' TLS.-- TLS, 'Schofield's meticulous record of the spirit that gave rise to those honours provides a worthy memorial to the Black Watch' Spectator.-- Spectator
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
356.109411
Synopsis
As the oldest of the Highland Regiments, The Black Watch has an enviable roster of Battle Honours and a mystique born of repeated service on behalf of King, Queen and country. On the strength of her acclaimed biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell, the regimental trustees commissioned Victoria Schofield to write this, the first volume of her magisterial history of the The Black Watch, and have fully cooperated with her as she traces the story of the Regiment from its early 18th-century beginnings through to the eve of the South African War at the end of the 19th-century. Originating as companies of highland men raised to keep a 'watch' over the Highlands of Scotland, they were formed into a regiment in 1739. Its soldiers would go on to fight with extraordinary bravery and élan in almost every major engagement fought by the British Army during this period, from the American War of Independence, the Peninsular Wars, Waterloo, the Crimea, Indian Mutiny to Egypt and the Sudan. Drawing on diaries, letters and memoirs, Victoria Schofield skilfully weaves the multiple strands of this story into an epic narrative of a valiant body of officers and men over one-and-a-half centuries. In her sure hands, the story of The Black Watch is no arid recitation of campaigns, dates and battle honours, but is instead a rich and compelling record of the soldier's experience under fire and on campaign. It is also a celebration of the deeds of a regiment that has played a unique role in British history and a vivid insight into the lives of the many remarkable figures who have marched and fought so proudly under its Colours.

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