1965 - Soldiers, soldiers av Richard Bowood.

Soldiers Soldiers by Richard Bowood. 151 sider.

Published 1965 by Paul Hamlyn LTD.

"Soldiers of every age - an international parade of warriors and their weapons assembled by Richard Bowood.

The blend of story and pictures, many of them in colour, traces first the history of warriors and battles from the earliest records of organized armies, which existed between six and seven thousand years ago, until the present day.

The men-at-arms of each succeeding ancient empire - Sumeria, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome - are followed by the Vikings and knights in armour, and they, in turn, by the new form of soldiery arose as a direct result of the introduction of gunpowder.

A chain of cause and effect, invention and counter invention, is shown developing through the centuries of great wars, battles, generals, and military evolution, until the world-wide conflicts of the twentieth century are reached.

And so to the present, with the author describing the many different branches into which a modern army is divided: armour, artillery, engineering, signals, supply, catering, medical services, and a host of others.

He tells of the introduction of women's corps, looks into the Lilliputian world of model soldiers, and ends his account with a description of how the soldier lives and fights today, with the development of push-button warfare.

Lapp soldiers from the far North, colourful contingents from the British Commonwealth, men of the Red Army, cadets at America's West Point, and forces from Asia and Africa, are all represented, together with special troops who play their part at sea or in the air.

Duties, parades, colours, mascots and traditions - forging links between comrades-in-arms of many lands - present the reader with a vivid and fascinating description of the world of soldiers".

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