Michael Somerville

Challenges the commonly held view that the British Army ignored the America Civil War, and demonstrates how its equipment, tactics and strategy changed in response. Meer

This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the full span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. Meer