Green Howards in the Great War

By H.C. Wylly

Book Overview

A suitably massive history for a regiment with an enormous reputation. This volume covers the huge range of the Green Howards' (the Yorkshire Regiment's) Great War campaigns - and takes the narrative beyond the war to post-war campaigns in Afghanistan and the intervention against the Russian revolution. Compiled from diaries, letters and interviews with survivors as well as from official diaries, reports and logs, this is a classic Regimental history of a famous unit which, as general Edward Bulfin, the Green Howards' Colonel-in-Chief modestly writes: 'Fought on almost every front, and pulled their weight'. The regiment's 1st battalion was on garrison duty in India; while the 2nd battalion landed in France in time for the first battle of Ypres in November 1914. Other Green Howard battalions fought in Flanders; France; Italy; Gallipoli; as well as serving in Russia, the Balkans; Palestine; Syria and Mesopotamia. The cost was high - but, as an appendix listing the 12 Victoria Crosses won by the Green Howards in the war testifies, the record was proud.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847347347
• ISBN13: 9781847347343
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"