Valour Beyond Measure - Captain Richard William Leslie Wain V.C. - The Tank Corps at Cambrai, 1917 - Softcover

Jonathan Hicks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912631261 ISBN 13: 9781912631261

Publisher: Y Lolfa, 2020

Synopsis

Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, 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 Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of the war, looking at personnel training and the development of tanks.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

1. THE WAIN FAMILY

2. THE JUNIOR OFFICER

3. THE SOMME 1916

4. MESSINES 1917

5. THIRD YPRES - PASSCHENDAELE 1917

6. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI 1917

7. THE GERMAN PERSPECTIVE

8. THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARD

9. THE OTHER TANK CORPS VC WINNERS

10 THE CREW OF ABOU-BEN-ADAM II

11. THE OTHER OFFICERS OF 'A' BATTALION

12. THE AFTERMATH

13. THE MEMORIALS

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

About this title

About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Y Lolfa
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912631261
• ISBN 13: 9781912631261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272