Reading List for Regiments & Corps involved in the Italian Campaign
History of the King’s Dragoon Guards. D McCorquodale, B Hutchings & A Woozley
A History of the 17th/21st Lancers 1922-1959. RLV Blake
Second to None. History of the Royal Scots Greys 1919-45. RMP Carver
The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945. N Nicholson & P Forbes
Why the Grenadiers? A chaplain’s memoirs of the Fifth Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1942-1945. D Browning
The Coldstream Guards 1920-1946. M Howard & J Sparrow
History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War. D Fitzgerald
Welsh Guards at War. LF Ellis
Historical Records of the Buffs, Royal East Kent Regiment 1919-1948. CRB Knight
History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Second World War. CN Barclay
Always a Fusilier – the war history of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 1939-1945. CN Parkinson
The Story of the King’s Regiment, 1914-1948. JJB Gaffney
The History of the Tenth Foot 1919-1945. LC Gates
History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) 1919-1945. G Molesworth
Suspended animation – a short history of the 2nd Battalion the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. AC Young
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, 17th Foot, a history of the years 1928 to 1956. W Underhill
The Story of the Green Howards 1939-1945. WAT Synge
The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1939-1945. J Hallam
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1919-1959. JC Kemp
The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War. A Crookenden
The History of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 26th and 90th Volume 3. 1933-1946. CN Barclay
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Second World War. F Fox
History of the East Surrey Regiment. Volume 4. 1920-1952. DS Daniell
The Surreys in Italy. GLA Squire & PGE Hill
The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1939-45. E Godfrey & R Goldsmith
History of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 1919-1952. CN Barclay
A History of the Royal Sussex Regiment 1701-1953. GD Martineau
History of The Queen’s Royal Regiment – Vol VIII 1924-1948. Foster.
History of 2/6th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regiment in the Italian Campaign. Anon
History of 2/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regiment 1939-1946. R Bullen
History of 2/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regiment 1939-1945. PN Tregonnring
Regimental History of the Royal Hampshire Regiment. Volume 3. 1918-1954. DS Daniell
The Black Watch and the King’s Enemies. B Fergusson
The Essex Regiment 1929-1950. TA Martin
1/4 Essex – a Battalion of the Eighth Army. D Beckett
The History of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) 1919-1957. CN Barclay
The story of the 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters 1939-1945. JWA Masters
The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) 1919-1953. CGT Dean
The History of the Northamptonshire Regiment, 1934-1948. WJ Jervois
The 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in Italy. I McKee
History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) 1920-1947. G Blight
The Fighting Tenth – A short history of the 10th Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment. DRC West
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1920-1950. HD Chaplin
History of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1939-1948. Volume 6. GF Ellenberger
The History of the Corps of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Volume 3. 1881-1968. J Moulsdale
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) 1919-1952. PK Kemp
The Annals of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Volume 7. 1943-1965. GH Mills & RF Nixon
The Story of the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) the 62nd and 99th Foot (1756-1959). NCE Kendrick
The North Staffordshire Regiment. H Cook
The York and Lancaster Regiment volume 3 1919-1953. OF Shepherd
The DLI at War – the history of the Durham Light Infantry 1939-1945. D Rissik
Seaforth Highlanders. J Sym
6th Gordons. 1939-45. CGT Dean
Historical Records of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Volumes 5 and 6. Anon
Charlie Company – in service with C Company 2nd Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 1940-44. P Cochrane
History of the Royal Irish Rifles volume 3. C Graves
The Royal Irish Rifles 1793-1957. MJ Corbally
London Irish Rifles 1859-1959. MJ Corbally
London Irish at War – A History of the Battalions of the London Irish Rifles in World War II. Anon
Fling Our Banner to the Wind. J Horsfall
The Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1793-1968. M Cunliffe
History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders – 1st Battalion, 1939-1954. RCB Anderson
The Rifle Brigade in the Second World War, 1939-1945. R Hastings
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1938-1948. Volume 9 Sicily & Italy. R Pakenham-Walsh
The Tiger Triumphs – The Story of Three Great Divisions in Italy. GR Stevens
The 51st Royal Tank Regiment: Morley, Tunisia and Italy, 1939-1945. R Addyman
A Short History of 3rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, from the outbreak of the war. GR Brocklebank
The 4th Indian Division. GR Stevens
They Did What Was Asked of Them. 41 (Royal Marines) Commando, 1942-1946. R Mitchell
The Heat of Battle. 16 DLI in WW2. P Hart
History of the Commandos in the Mediterranean Sep 43-May 45. Anon
Commandos and Rangers of World War II. JD Ladd
War Chronicles. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire LI. Volume 3. July 1942-May 1944. JEH Neville
Darby’s Rangers. JJ Altieri
Battleaxe Division. From Africa to Italy with the 78th Division 1942-45. K Ford
The Rock of Anzio. A History of the US 45th Infantry Division. F Whitlock
The Blue Devils in Italy. JP Delaney
History of the 85th Infantry Division in World War II. P Schultz
The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919–1965. RH Roy
North Irish Horse Battle Report, North Africa-Italy 1943-1945. Anon
North Irish Horse. R Docherty
History of the First Division : Anzio Campaign, January-June 1944
British Army Communications in the Second World War: Lifting the Fog of Battle. S Godfrey
Larkhill’s Wartime Locators – RA Survey in the Second Wold War’. M Mangilli-Climpson
“The Kensingtons” Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment Second World War. Anon
The Army Medical Services, Campaigns, Volume 3: Sicily, Italy, Greece (1944-45). FAE Crew
Allied Military Administration in Italy 1943-45. CRS Harris
A History of the Fifth Army. CG Starr
Front of the Line. Adventures with the Irish Brigade. C Gunner
The First Divisional Artillery at Anzio. Anon
The Fourth Division 1939 to 1945. H Williamson
The Black Cats at War. D Williams
The London Scottish in the Second World War. CN Barclay
The Fifth British Division. G Aris
The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book, 1939-1945. WE Duncan
The Rajputana Rifles; a History of the Regiment 1775-1947. MG Abhayankar
History of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles. JN Mackay
Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy 1942-1945. AL Hargreaves, PJ Rose and MC Ford
A Bloody Road Home. World War Two and New Zealand’s Historic Second Division. C Pugsley
8th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1939-47. AD Malcolm
Letters from a Soldier. W Robson
Shabash 149. The war story of the 149th Regiment RA 1939-1945. EW Capleton
The Army Medical Services. Campaigns Volume 3. FA Crew
History of the Queen’s Bays 1929-1945. WR Beddington
The Raiders. The Army Commandos 1940-46. R Neillands
Nothing Much to Lose – 43 Commando Royal Marines. M McConville
The Galloping Third. The story of the 3rd King’s Own Hussars. H Bolitho
9 Gurkha Rifles: A Regimental History (1817-1947). P Chaudhuri
Seaforth Highlanders: a fighting soldier remembers. J Stockman
A History of the 7th Field Company RE 1939-1945. TMJ Riordan
The Seventh and Three Enemies. The Story of WW2 and the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars. GMO Davy
From Tack to Track. The 16th/5th Lancers from 1925 to 1945. S Haines
Memories of a Young Sergeant. A Pittacchio
The 1st Household Cavalry 1943-44: in the shadow of Monte Amaro. G O’Connor