Featured battle : Yellow Tavern

Part of American Civil War

Date : 11 May 1864

While Grant was busy attempting to get the better of Lee's Confederates at Spotsylvania he sent Phil Sheridan's cavalry round deep into their rear to attack communications and spread chaos. He took 10,000 troopers with him and set about railroads and supply dumps. J.E.B. Stuart and 4,500 southern cavalrymen followed and harried but made little difference. On the 11th, at Yellow Tavern 6 miles north of Richmond itself, Sheridan and Stuart met head on. With a numerical advantage of 2:1 and much better, rapid-fire carbines the Union cavalry drove their long-time foes from the field. Worse than that for the southern cause, Gen. Stuart himself was mortally wounded.

Gurkha Odyssey

Peter Duffell
An odyssey is a long eventful journey and an appropriate title for this book. The story is of the author’s journey with and in the Gurkha ‘family’. The manner of its telling, in the main, is like a dinner party conversation with an excellent raconteur. In the telling not only do we see the Gurkhas but we see the author. Peter Duffell is a fighting man both with his men in the jungles of Borneo and for his men in the corridors of Whitehall. The period covered is from the early 1960s to 2018 with some coverage of early history. The unit focused on is the 2nd Gurkhas and therefore sadly does not include the Gurkha contribution to the Falklands war [7th Gurkhas].
The book is well illustrated with a dozen pages of colour plates and some super Ken Howard drawings. Nine maps, all with scales, help in the telling of the journey. There is more to Gurkha history than told here and this book is a taster which will leave you wanting to find out more.
Gurkha Odyssey is a most enjoyable cover to cover read which we highly recommend.

Pen & Sword Military, 2019