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"...still provides detailed historical and travel information that supplements and enhances internet resources."
Journal of Military History
"...still provides detailed historical and travel information that supplements and enhances internet resources."
Journal of Military History
Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Belleau Wood and Vaux: 1 to 26 June & July 1918" is a seminal and unreservedly recommended core contribution to personal, community, and college/university library World War I military history collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
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Midwest Book Review
Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Belleau Wood and Vaux: 1 to 26 June & July 1918" is a seminal and unreservedly recommended core contribution to personal, community, and college/university library World War I military history collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
[link=https://www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/dec_23.htm#MilitaryHistory]here[/link]
Midwest Book Review
The purpose of this book is to give the reader a perceptive overview of the causes and battles of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War which commenced with the British defeat at Isandlwana and the defence of Rorke’s Drift. For twenty-five years the author, a close friend of David Rattray, regularly visited the numerous battlefields of Zululand, where he worked as an accredited guide and guest speaker, escorting over 1,000 UK visitors and corporate groups around the far-flung and fascinating battlefields of Zululand. I had the privilege of accompanying several of his tours while conducting my own research into Lieutenant Harford’s role in Zululand. His tours were noted for his professionalism and safely visiting many unique and important ‘off the beaten track’ locations, for which his maps were invaluable. This book’s maps and illuminating observations are taken from the author’s personal on-site lecture maps and notes he used across the battlefields. The maps include many little -known.. Read more
Dr David Payne Harford – The Writings, Photographs and Sketches
The purpose of this book is to give the reader a perceptive overview of the causes and battles of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War which commenced with the British defeat at Isandlwana and the defence of Rorke’s Drift. For twenty-five years the author, a close friend of David Rattray, regularly visited the numerous battlefields of Zululand, where he worked as an accredited guide and guest speaker, escorting over 1,000 UK visitors and corporate groups around the far-flung and fascinating battlefields of Zululand. I had the privilege of accompanying several of his tours while conducting my own research into Lieutenant Harford’s role in Zululand. His tours were noted for his professionalism and safely visiting many unique and important ‘off the beaten track’ locations, for which his maps were invaluable. This book’s maps and illuminating observations are taken from the author’s personal on-site lecture maps and notes he used across the battlefields. The maps include many little -known.. Read more
Dr David Payne Harford – The Writings, Photographs and Sketches
[b] 5 Stars [/b]
This fine book closes with details of tours and visits to the areas described, including driving directions, the many places of interest and accompanied by contemporary photographs.
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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
[b] 5 Stars [/b]
This fine book closes with details of tours and visits to the areas described, including driving directions, the many places of interest and accompanied by contemporary photographs.
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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
The author so poignantly reminds the reader that the ‘archaeology and the records of those remains will serve testimony to the wartime generation long after they have passed; the duty of archaeologists is to bring the traces of the Second World War to life again to illuminate the lives and experiences of the people who worked, fought and died among them’. The book will certainly aid that important process, and act as a wonderful aid for anyone fascinated in this archaeology.
Jon Sandison
The author so poignantly reminds the reader that the ‘archaeology and the records of those remains will serve testimony to the wartime generation long after they have passed; the duty of archaeologists is to bring the traces of the Second World War to life again to illuminate the lives and experiences of the people who worked, fought and died among them’. The book will certainly aid that important process, and act as a wonderful aid for anyone fascinated in this archaeology.
Jon Sandison
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Aisne 1914
The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of the Marne, which took place further south as the huge conscript armies of France and Germany jostled for position almost within sight of Paris. By the time the British arrived on the Aisne the battle line stretched some… Read more...
