Title: The tigers : 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th (service) battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment /
Authors: Richardson, Matthew
Publisher: Leo Cooper,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Great Britain.; World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain
Abstract: "The Tigers is the first major history of the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War to be published since the 1930s. Weaving personal recollections and testimony with official accounts, it brings vividly to life the characters of the four battalions raised by Leicestershire in response to Lord Kitchener's call for volunteers. The book contains information on every major figure in each battalion (including Lieutenant-Colonel PE Bent VC) and contains the testimony of men not just from Leicester, but also from Loughborough, Coalville, Hinckley, Rutland, Market Harborough and Wigston. It follows them from training on Salisbury Plain through to the battles whose names are etched into the history of the Great War: The Somme, Arras and Passchendaele among them"--Dust jacket.
Contents: Kitchener's Army -- We band of brothers -- Forging a new brigade : training at Aldershot and on the south coast -- Foreign fields : France at last -- 'Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin' : the Battle of the Bazentin Ridge -- Gueudecourt : the Somme once more -- Force of arms : Fontaine and the Hindenburg Line -- 'Go on, Tigers!' : the fighting at Polygon Wood -- Heroic resistance; desperate endeavour : the spring offensives -- No quarter asked or given : the Battle of the Aisne -- The final advance -- A land fit for heroes.