Bearskins, Bayonets & Body Armour: Welsh Guards, 1915-2015

by Trevor Royle

The Welsh Guards have been at the forefront of British military history over the past hundred years. Bearskins, Bayonets & Body armor traces them from their foundation in the First World War and their baptism of fire at the Battle of Loos in 1915, through their fighting at Dunkirk, in the Western Desert, Italy and Normandy in the Second World War, the Cold War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War (when heavy casualties were suffered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848327358
• ISBN13: 9781848327351
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.1"