With Manchesters in the East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847349729)

This book is midway between a battalion history and a Great War officer's memoir. The 7th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, first raised in 1859, served in the Sudan before being sent to join the ultimately disastrous Gallipoli campaign. The book is therefore an invaluable memoir of the Dardanelles fighting in 1915, with chapters on the battles around Cape Helles; trench warfare at Gallipoli and the peninsular's evacuation. The final chapters of the book are concerned with the unit's 'revival' and deployment in Egypt in the latter days of the war. This is a rare and candid account of the Dardanelles campaign and the part played in it by a typical Territorial Army battalion.

Author: Gerald B. Hurst
ISBN-10: 1847349722
ISBN-13: 9781847349729
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2009
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d