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Those Must Be The Guards starts off with a description of the last VC to be awarded to Lance Corporal Ashworth of the Grenadier Guards, and this sets the scene for a story of the remarkable spirit, steadfastness and courage of the guardsmen and officers who remained unchanged since the formation of each regiment.
They are the closest soldiers to the Crown and the Sovereign: they protect The King and the Royal Family on State occasions, guard royal palaces throughout the year, and conduct guards of honour for visiting Heads of State and dignitaries.
In the series, set in 1192, Robin of Locksley returns to his native England after five years of serving in the private guard of King Richard during the Third Crusade. He returns home to find England has descended into tyranny and chaos in the King's absence due to the rule of his brother, Prince John.
This book is the latest in an irregular series. It covers the Guards from the Cold War and the troubles in Northern Ireland to the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These activities have included guarding the Inter-German border against the massed armies of the Soviet Union, and peacekeeping in Cyprus, among others.
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Terry Pratchett was an internationally acclaimed author who specializes in fantasy books. He was born Terrence David John Pratchett in 28th of April 1948 in Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire, England. He was the only child of David and Eileen Pratchett. He spent his early life in Bridgewater, Somerset where he sat for his eleven plus exam and passed. He...
Surprisingly, his early ambitions were not in the literary world, he had dreams of becoming an astronomer as a child and even centered his hobbies on this but his dreams were shattered due to his lack of prerequisite mathematical skills. This is when his interest for reading science fiction books was born. He read both American and British science ...
He studied O- levels and A-levels where he majored in Art, History and English. He started out as a journalist as a teenager of seventeen years in 1965. He was working at Bucks Free Press where he wrote many stories. His most popular stories at the press were the children stories where he used to sign off as Uncle Jim. One of his characters in this...
Pratchett lived with his wife and daughter in Broad Chalke, a village situated west of Salisbury, in Wiltshie. He got married to his wife Lyn in 1968 and their daughter who has followed her father’s footsteps to become an author as well, was born to them in 1967. He wrote and published over fifty books. A number of them have been adopted into telev...
Jan 18, 2024 · It is the story of a family of seven regiments that symbolise the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Septem juncta in uno: The Life Guards, The Blues and Royals, Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards.
Those Must Be The Guards illustrates both roles through the experiences of those who have served in the Household Division over the past half-century.
