Ronald Welch
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Ronald Welch was a historian who served as a Tank Corps officer in the Second World War and in 1947 became Headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School.
Books
Tank commander
As a result of his experience on the front line in France, a young British officer finds himself participating in the first tank warfare of World War I.
Zulu warrior
Lieutenant Robert Maryon is bored and frustrated by peacetime soldering in the England of 1878. He asks for an overseas posting and is sent to South Africa where, as a Staff Officer in Colonel Durnford's column, he serves in the Zulu War of 1879...
The Gauntlet
The Hawk
Involved in sea battles and political intrigues, Harry Carey becomes associated with a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth which in reality is a plan to save her life.
Nicholas Carey
Nicholas Carey a young Captain in the British Army, professes to love only the comforts of good living, but somehow he gets involved in one dangerous escapade after another. His cousin Andrew pulls him into the affair of the Italian revolutionists and Nicholas saves Napoleon III from being assassinated.
Bowman of Crécy
The youthful leader of an outlaw band in the forest of fourteenth-century England enters the service of a respected knight to campaign for King and country.
For the King
Excellent children's story following the adventures of a young nobleman and his family who raise a regiment to fight for King Charles I in the English Civil War. This is part of a series based around successive generations of the the Carey family from Llanstephen in South Wales and must rank as one of the best in the series. Fast-paced, with vivid action and credible characterization, it is a fantastic piece of writing.
Knight crusader
Seventeen-year-old Philip learns the skills of a knight in his father's castle in 12th-century Jerusalem. Bravely surviving Saracen attack, he joins Richard the Lionhearted in the Third Crusade before returning to England to claim his ancestral estate.