Books written by Charles Carrington

  • Soldier at Bomber Command

    Oxborrow, too, had an Air staff officer at his elbow, and Stephenson in the War Office had a liaison wing commander. Within our circle Army/Air Requirements were matters of common, if restricted, knowledge. When the Oxborrow-Stratton ...

  • Soldier from the Wars Returning

    Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War.

  • The British Overseas, Part 1, Making of the Empire: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers

    This is a digital reprint of a volume from 1968 where Professor Carrington brought up to date the first nine chapters of his classic study of the expansion of the...

  • An Exposition of Empire

    An Exposition of Empire

  • Soldier from the Wars Returning

    six different corps and of three different armies from time to time, hardly knowing one from another. The war histories now make play with myths about ... After the war I asked 'Fanny' which was the best Corps Commander he served under.

  • Soldier at Bomber Command

    It was late in the season, 9 Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Dermot Boyle (b. 1904). AOC No. 1. Group Bomber Command 1951—53; AOC-in-C Fighter Command 1953—55; Chief of Air Staff 1956—59. 1° Air Chief Marshal Sir George Mills ...