Second Hand The Bloody Eleventh: History of the Devonshire Regiment (3 Volumes)

Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Exeter, 1988 (three-volume set). Hardback; Volume I: 1685–1815 (xv, 719 pp); Volume II: 1815–1914 (xxi, 518 pp); Volume III: 1914–1969 (xviii, 686 pp), including plates, maps and colour illustrations. ISBNs: Vol. I 0-9512655-1-2; Vol. II 0-9512655-2-0.

This definitive three-volume regimental history of the Devonshire Regiment – nicknamed “The Bloody Eleventh” – offers a comprehensive chronicle of a single British infantry regiment from its origins in the late seventeenth century through to its post-war service in 1969.

• Volume I covers the regiment from its raising in 1685 to the end of the Napoleonic era.
• Volume II continues from 1815 to the eve of the First World War.
• Volume III spans the Great War, the Second World War, post-1945 service and the amalgamation period.

Notable features of this set include:

• Epoch-spanning coverage of more than 280 years of regimental history, providing a rare continuity of narrative and detail.
• Extensively illustrated with photographs, colour plates, maps and fold-out sections, bringing to life the regiment’s experience from the Peninsular War to Burma, North-West Europe and the Far East.
• Written by respected regimental historians Robinson and Aggett, based on regimental archives, battlefield records, and first-hand accounts.