Fighting with the Guards

From West of Scotland Books webpage- This is the story of the most famous fighting men in the world-the Brigade of Guards-and of their magnificent tradition of discipline and courage. The author tells how the Brigade began and how it has shaped our history. It is a story filled with dramatic incident and heroism-a record of the men who have helped to make Britain great. It includes stories of the V.C.'s won by the Guards during the last war and of the battles they fought; it tells how recruits from all walks of life are infused with the spirit of a great past and how, after Dunkirk, Guardsmen were for the first time put into tanks and achieved some of their greatest triumphs. This book also reveals many fascinating little-known incidents in our island story; how the Guards gave New York its name; how a party of Coldstream Guards one stormy night helped to save the Rock of Gibraltar; how the Guardsmen won some of the first Crosses awarded by Queen ~ .Victoria in the Crimean War; how they fought at sea and how, with the Americans, they won one of the most amazing battles of the last war.