Sherwood Boys: Biography of a Battalion, Volume 1: April 1939-August 1943

2/5th Sherwood Foresters emerge from Derbyshire youth to hardened veterans confronting Dunkirk, North Africa, and wartime hardship.

This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. It provides a unique view on the British army through the l...