House To House Fighting

Emma — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Do you know that house-to-house fighting is the finest sport on earth?Do you know that is it just the sort of close-quarter scrapping the British excel in?Do you know that once you get going you will love it?Do you want to come with me down our street and play hell with some bloody Huns?You do?Right, we’ll carry on!House to House Fighting is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how Second World War trainees learnt to defend themselves amidst the threat of enemy invasion.

Stumbling Towards Victory

Emma — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The First World War tore apart the early twentieth century. Both terrible and terrifying, it banished misplaced optimism that war on such an unconscionable scale could never occur. A century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, its scars continue to shape our modern idea of remembrance.As the national museum of arms and armour, the Royal Armouries brings a unique perspective to studies of the Great War. Stumbling Towards Victory contains photographs – many previously unpublished – from the museum archives, all of which were taken in the final twelve months of the war. Amidst the haunting emptiness of broken ground and shattered trees, these images convey the horror, and hope, of that final cataclysmic year. Published to coincide with the First World War centenary commemorations, Stumbling Towards Victory illustrates the final months of a global conflagration that was nothing less than an armageddon for the ages.

Trustees of the Royal Armouries – The Bell Bookshop

House To House Fighting

Stumbling Towards Victory