Valour Beyond Measure: R Wain VC and the Development of the First World War Tank Corps: Captain Richard William Leslie Wain V. C. The Tank Corps at Cambrai 1917 - Softcover

Hicks, Jonathan

 
9781912631261: Valour Beyond Measure: R Wain VC and the Development of the First World War Tank Corps: Captain Richard William Leslie Wain V. C. The Tank Corps at Cambrai 1917

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Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, who won the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War, aged only 20. Also traces in detail the history of the British Army Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of the war, looking at personnel training and the development of early tanks.

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Acclaimed military historian Jonathan Hicks won the Victorian Military Society's top award for his work on the Anglo-Zulu War and in 2010 was awarded the Western Front Association Shield for his work on Barry and the Great War. He has written novels about the First World War including 'The Dead of Mametz' and 'Demons Walk Among Us' and also volumes of military history, including 'The Welsh at Mametz Wood' (2016), 'The Welsh at Passchendaele 1917' (2017) and 'Wales and the First Air War' (2017). -- Publisher: Y Lolfa

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