The Tommy's Handbook
By: Neil R. Storey
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780750955683; 9780750957335
Subjects: Field service; Regulations; Handbooks, manuals; Field service (Military science); World War, 1914-1918; Miscellanea; Armed Forces; Great Britain. Army; Great Britain
Description: "With excerpts carefully selected by historian Neil R. Storey from his ... archive, this volume provides an authentic overview of how a typical Tommy was trained both at home and in the field during the First World War."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Recruitment; title: Drill; title: Rifles, bayonets & grenades; title: Machine guns; title: Uniforms & equipment; title: Marching; title: Communication; title: Trench construction; title: Sentries & Patrols; title: The attack; title: Gas!; title: Miscellaneous.