The Gordon Highlanders

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. 133, [4] pages. Illustrations. Music. Chronology. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Some pages creased at bottom. Includes a 'Special Introduction" by Lt.-General Brian Horrocks. This is one of the Famous Regiments series edited by Horrocks. Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson became an editor at Hamish Hamilton in 1961. Thirteen years later in 1974 he became managing director. In 1989 he resigned and set up. Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd which was subsumed into the Random House Group in February 1997 with the purchase of the Reed Consumer Trade Division. Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 - 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the World War II. He served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994, when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders to form the Highlanders. The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 instigated under the Childers Reforms. The new two-battalion regiment was formed out of the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot-which became the 1st Battalion of the new regiment-and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, which became the 2nd Battalion. The 1st battalion fought at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in September 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War, and then took part in the Nile Expedition in an attempt to relieve Major-General Charles Gordon during the Mahdist War. The 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was a Regular Army battalion that served originally with the 2nd Infantry Brigade, part of the 1st Infantry Division, and was sent to France in September 1939, shortly after the declaration of war, as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF): it remained there until May 1940.