Ally Sloper's Cavalry: From Mons to Loos with the Army Service Corps During the First World War

Personal recollections of a little reported unit of the British Army

This book is one of many first-hand accounts written by soldiers about their experiences in the First World War. Originally titled 'From Mons to Loos' this gives readers little specific indication of the book's contents. It of course concerns the period from the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, when the 'contemptible' little British Army fought its historic, dogged retreat from Mons, through the epic battles of the Marne a...