Tag: Regiment

Free Download Dominiek Dendooven, "The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front"
English | ISBN: 1399067699 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative – race, color and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers – NCOs and private soldiers – and a growing grasp of political ideas and liberal democracy. And the loyalty to the British crown as an agent of the ending of slavery will be amazing to some readers.

Free Download Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
English | January 27, 2023 | ISBN: 0241558174 | 473 pages | PDF | 25 Mb
On the 80th anniversary of their first crucial campaign, in Operation Torch in North Africa, Mark Urban tells the gripping story of the creation and development of the "Red Devils" – the name given to them by their German enemies – who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six heroes, from recently-widowed Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, who had to leave his little boy to head to the front, to Mike Lewis, whose photographs became iconic images of war, Urban vividly brings to life these men and their experiences, showing what drove them and covering their daring actions at D-Day, Arnhem and across the Second World War. All six characters would shed blood for their country, two would not survive and one would face disgrace in the regiment. Based on deep archival research, British and German sources, and new material from the men’s families, and giving overdue recognition to the North African campaign, this compelling account paints a true and moving picture of the heart of war.

Free Download Carole Divall, "Redcoats Against Napoleon: The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1844158519 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 7.5 mb
Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers – the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly researched account, tells the story of one such hitherto ignored group of fighting men, the 30th Regiment of the Line. She takes their story from one of the opening clashes of the long war, the Siege of Toulon in 1793, to the decisive Battle of Waterloo in 1815. She gives us a fresh perspective on key events the men took part in – Massena’s retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, the bloody storming of Badajoz, the retreat from Burgos, the ordeal of the troops holding the center of Wellington’s Waterloo position. The regiment’s history – which she describes using some hitherto unpublished and vivid memoirs left by the men themselves and those they fought alongside – offers a fascinating insight into the life of British soldiers two centuries ago.

Free Download Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLMBN1HD | 2023 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Peter Hart
Narrator: Julian Elfer
This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable-the sheer nerve-wracking tension of serving in highly inflammable Sherman tanks, the sudden impact of German shells, the desperate scramble to bail out, and the awful fate of those who couldn’t. Even if they made it out of the tank, they were still vulnerable to being brutally cut down by German infantry. Yet amidst these horrors, the humanity of these men shines through. And as we follow in their tracks, through letters, diaries, and eye-witness accounts, they will change how we think about tank warfare forever.

Free Download Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGY893Z5 | 2022 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 599 MB
Author: Mark Urban
Narrator: Mark Urban
A gripping authorised history of the daring ‘Red Devils’, the trailblazers of the parachute regiment. The Parachute Regiment is Britain’s elite airborne infantry. On the 80th anniversary of their first crucial campaign, in Operation Torch in North Africa, historian and broadcaster Mark Urban combines perspectives from German and British sources to tell the gripping stories of the men who had the resilience, fitness and self-reliance to be "Red Devils"-the name they were given by their German enemies. The Paras comprised everyone from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christian Jews and communists.

Free Download A. J. Vaughn, "Personal Record Of The Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry"
English | ISBN: 1477559493 | 2012 | 98 pages | EPUB | 376 KB
Originally published in 1897, this is the personal recollections of the 13th Tennessee Infantry during the Civil War, written by it’s old commander, A. J. Vaughn.

Free Download Iron Knights: The U.S. 66th Armored Regiment in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series) by Gordon A. Blaker
English | February 12, 2008 | ISBN: 0811734706 | 400 pages | EPUB | 18 Mb
Combat history of the U.S. Army’s oldest armored regimentTank battles in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, and the Battle of the BulgeThe 66th Armored Regiment is still active today and has served in Iraq