Guards Division   

A World War One Living History Organization

Useful References

Books about the Guards Regiments

Bowling, A. H. The Foot Guards Regiments: 1880 to 1914.  London: Almark Publications Co. Ltd., 1972.

Chappell, Mike.  The Guards Divisions 1914-1945.  London: Osprey Military Books, 1995.

Headlam, Cuthbert D.S.O. History of the Guards Division in the Great War. Volumes 1-2. East Sussex:  The Naval & Military Press. Reprint of the 1924 Edition.

Paget, Julian.  The Story of the Guards.  London: Osprey Publishing Limited.  1988.

Books about the Grenadier Guards

Cliff, Norman.  To Hell and Back with the Guards. Merlin Books Ltd., 1996.

Craster, J.M. Fifteen Rounds a Minute:  The Grenadiers at War 1914. London: MacMillan Ltd., 1976.

Fletcher, Ian. Editor.  Letters from the Front.  Tunbridge Wells:  Parapress Ltd., 1993.

Fraser, Gen. Sir David. The Grenadier Guards.  London: Osprey Military Books, 1996.

Hanning, Henry. The British Grenadiers: Three Hundred & Fifty Years of the First Regiment of Foot Guards 1656-2006.
      Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2006.

Ponsonby, Sir F.E.G.  Short History of the Grenadier Guards.  Colchester: Benham and Co. Ltd., 1917.

Ponsonby, Sir Fredrick.  The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1919.  Volumes 1-3.  London: MacMillan Ltd., 1920.

Whitworth, R.H. The Grenadier Guards (The First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards.)  London: Leo Cooper Ltd., 1974.

Books about the Coldstream Guards

Paget, Julian.  Second to None: The Coldstream Guards 1650-2000.  Barnesley, South Yorkshire: Leo Cooper Ltd., 2000.

Books about World War One: History, Armies, Equipment and Tactics

Bull, Stephen. World War One: British Army.  London:  Brassey's Ltd., 1998.

Chambers, Stephen J. Uniforms & Equipment of the British Army in World War I: A Study of Period Photographs.  Atglen, PA:
        Schiffer Military History, 2005.

Ellis, John. Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Fosten, D.S.V. & Marrion, R.J., The British Army 1914-1918. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1999.

Groom, Winston.  A Storm in Flanders: They Ypres Salient, 1914 - 1918. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

Tuchman, Barbara W.  The Guns of August.  New York:  Ballantine Books, 1994.

Books about the British Army

Farwell, Byron.  Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men.  London:  W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.

Laffin, John.  Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier.  Gloucestershire: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 2003.