Most books written about the British Army contain stories about the Infantry, Royal Artillery, Army Air Corps and/or its Armoured Regiments. They generally tell stories of how brave the protagonists within each Regiment were and how their actions usually changed the course of each battle or firefight. Great reading for most schoolboys and aspiring 2nd Lieutenants and of course these stories are deservingly told in vast volumes of books. But stories of who actually supported these Regiments and got them to the right place with the right equipment is rarely told, probably because stories of the...

How much of the World's written military history is actually true? Can anyone confirm exactly what was said by the Duke of Wellington after he just scraped a win against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo? Most written military history is sexed up to make the protagonist's look more heroic and the book more readable, in reality any soldiers, sailors and airmen under fire have other things to worry about whilst in action (like dodging bullets) rather than remembering, verbatim, who said what and to whom. In this book Brian (Harry) Clacy and Terry Cavender have put alternative words into the...