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The Guards Came Through - An Illustrated History of the Guards in the Great War (Hardcover, Main)
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The Guards Came Through - An Illustrated History of the Guards in the Great War (Hardcover, Main)
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An illustrated account of the Household Cavalry and Foot Guards in
The Great War. The story of the Guards in the First World War
epitomises the shattering historical significance of the conflict.
These elite regiments fought in every major engagement on the
Western Front - Mons, Loos, the Aisne, the Somme, Passchendaele -
and sustained incalculable losses. Whole divisions were wiped out,
and new regiments created. Cavalrymen spent the war behind
machine-guns while their horses remained tethered and terrified.
Simon Doughty's account is the first truly comprehensive record of
the regiments' contribution to the war, describing every action in
which they participated and tracing the complex history of their
formation and dissolution. Rare extracts from regimental
publications and arresting photography - much of which is published
here for the first time - bring us close to the stories of famous
figures such as Kipling, Julian Grenfell and Harold Macmillan, but
also introduce us to the unknown private soldiers, all of whom were
awarded the special rank of Guardsman by a grateful King George V
after the War. As eminent historian Sir Michael Howard's
introduction makes clear, the experience of the Guards is a
peculiarly poignant tale within the wider narrative of the War.
Amid the series of centenary commemorations, it is a story that
needs to be told.
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