Product Description: Llewelyn Wyn Griffith’s Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welch Fusiliers), its training, its apprenticeship in the trenches, through to its ordeal of Mametz Wood on the Somme as part of 38 Division...read more

Product Description: ‘I never saw any regiment in such order,’ remarked Wellington shortly before the battle of Waterloo, ‘it was the most complete and handsome military body I ever looked at.’ The object of the duke's admiration was the 23rd Regiment of Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers...read more