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Lion and the Rose: The 4th Battalion the King´s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919
Kevin Shannon
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Description for Lion and the Rose: The 4th Battalion the King´s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919
Hardcover. The Great War told through the combat exploits of a single battalion Num Pages: 416 pages, 28 black and white images, 13 color pictures. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJF; HBWN; JWL; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 38. Weight in Grams: 766.
The Lion and the Rose tells the story of an infantry battalion in the Great War. Based on many unpublished sources, the book narrates the individual parts played by nearly 2,000 of those who served with the 4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from the day that war was declared in 1914 until the armistice in 1918 and in a few cases, the stories of men whose war continued long afterwards. The battalion first saw action in Festubert in May 1915 and went on to fight on the Somme, the Ypres Salient and Gillemont Farm, though the battalion's epic stand ... Read more
The Lion and the Rose tells the story of an infantry battalion in the Great War. Based on many unpublished sources, the book narrates the individual parts played by nearly 2,000 of those who served with the 4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from the day that war was declared in 1914 until the armistice in 1918 and in a few cases, the stories of men whose war continued long afterwards. The battalion first saw action in Festubert in May 1915 and went on to fight on the Somme, the Ypres Salient and Gillemont Farm, though the battalion's epic stand ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781554388
SKU
V9781781554388
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Ref
99-5
About Kevin Shannon
Kevin Shannon was educated at St Edward's College and Liverpool University. Shannon spent ten years in the Army, serving in a number of regiments and taught history for many years in a secondary school. Over the years, he has spent his spare time racing and rallying cars; martial arts; instructing and competing in practical pistol shooting; and piloting light aircraft. ... Read more
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