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Horse Guards | 
 enlarge | Author: Barney White-spunner
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
List Price: £30.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 246508
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New title
Pages: 625
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.8 x 1.9
ISBN: 140505574X
Dewey Decimal Number: 357.10941
EAN: 9781405055741
ASIN: 140505574X
Publication Date: October 20, 2006
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A complex tale engagingly told October 18, 2006
Christopher Joll
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Regiments are, in many ways, like families and this book is as much a biography as a history. However, unlike a typical biography that examines the life & times of one person, "Horse Guards" recounts not one but four parallel "family" histories over a period of 350 years.
Given that, during those 350 years, the two Regiments of Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards and The Royals fought in many of the same campaigns and shared many of the same duties, this must have posed General White-Spunner with the problem of how to narrate these four stories without endlessly covering the same historical ground. That he has been able to do this without repetition is a triumph.
In addition to this, General White-Spunner has pulled off another significant literary achievement in turning dry historical and military facts into a compelling narrative that bowls along at a spanking pace. The book is full of quirky stories that amuse as well as inform: the transvestite Colonel of The Royals who went on to be an unpopular Governor of New York and was immortalised in a painting depicting him in drag; how, in 18th Century campaigns, there was an official allocation of soldiers wives who accompanied the troops and performed their uxorial duties on a communal basis; the tales of life in a mid-19th Century Cavalry barracks where lavatory paper was issued on the basis of one sheet per soldier every four days; and Queen Alexandra's lobbying to get a Boer war campaign medal for Freddy, the only Life Guards horse to return from the war. These, and many more stories, leaven a tale that would otherwise be strictly for the military history wonks.
If you enjoy "Flashman", you will certainly enjoy "Horse Guards".
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