Hi Guys ,
Saw this on Amazon ...could be interesting ...but currently not available as a customer complained that it was not what he expected !!!!
Great War British Tommy Manual: The British Soldier 1914-18 (All Models) (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals)
Product Description
The Great War continues to fascinate, and never more so as we approach 2014, the centenary year of its outbreak. There is an abiding fascination in the uniform and equipment of the British Great War soldier. What was it like to wear? What were puttees? What does a gas mask look like? How heavy was the equipment? How did you dig a trench? These and other typical questions will be answered in Haynes Manual style, providing a vivid insight into life during the Great War for the average 'Tommy Atkins'.
Format Hardback
Pages 156
Illustrations 225 colour & 75 b&w illustrations
Publisher Haynes
ISBN Number 9780857332417
Someone else wrote:
As the WW1 Centenary approaches the publishers are moving up a gear and bringing out more and more titles. I spent some time in my local bookshop recently looking at some of these and am amazed at how poor some are and wonder if they would have ever attracted the attention of anyone in publishing if next year was not 2014.
Among these all too often average titles are a few beacons of light and among them is Professor Peter Doyle’s superb Great War Tommy Haynes Manual. The Haynes manuals for cars have long been extended into the realms of military history with books on Lancaster bombers and Tiger tanks for example. This new volume is an excellent tour de force of what the British soldier was all about in the Great War, with chapters on Equipping and Training men, trenches and trench routine, and trench warfare. With his usual skill and eloquence Peter Doyle weaves these aspects together and supplements the text with a wonderful range of contemporary images, modern reconstructions and material from archaeological work he has been involved in. It is a well produced and handsome book to handle, full of quality in the way it is presented by both author and publisher, and to my mind is the best single volume yet produced on what it was to be a British Tommy in the Great War.
Also this one
Mmmm...
Nap
Saw this on Amazon ...could be interesting ...but currently not available as a customer complained that it was not what he expected !!!!
Great War British Tommy Manual: The British Soldier 1914-18 (All Models) (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals)
Product Description
The Great War continues to fascinate, and never more so as we approach 2014, the centenary year of its outbreak. There is an abiding fascination in the uniform and equipment of the British Great War soldier. What was it like to wear? What were puttees? What does a gas mask look like? How heavy was the equipment? How did you dig a trench? These and other typical questions will be answered in Haynes Manual style, providing a vivid insight into life during the Great War for the average 'Tommy Atkins'.
Format Hardback
Pages 156
Illustrations 225 colour & 75 b&w illustrations
Publisher Haynes
ISBN Number 9780857332417
Someone else wrote:
As the WW1 Centenary approaches the publishers are moving up a gear and bringing out more and more titles. I spent some time in my local bookshop recently looking at some of these and am amazed at how poor some are and wonder if they would have ever attracted the attention of anyone in publishing if next year was not 2014.
Among these all too often average titles are a few beacons of light and among them is Professor Peter Doyle’s superb Great War Tommy Haynes Manual. The Haynes manuals for cars have long been extended into the realms of military history with books on Lancaster bombers and Tiger tanks for example. This new volume is an excellent tour de force of what the British soldier was all about in the Great War, with chapters on Equipping and Training men, trenches and trench routine, and trench warfare. With his usual skill and eloquence Peter Doyle weaves these aspects together and supplements the text with a wonderful range of contemporary images, modern reconstructions and material from archaeological work he has been involved in. It is a well produced and handsome book to handle, full of quality in the way it is presented by both author and publisher, and to my mind is the best single volume yet produced on what it was to be a British Tommy in the Great War.
Also this one
Mmmm...
Nap
