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Books

The Corps Colours

Below is a collection of the most popular Books of the Royal Corps of Signals. Telephone 01258 482 248 or e-mail info@royalsignalsmuseum.com to place your order.

It is difficult to keep an updated list of books as they go out of print.  If you have a requirement or would like an updated list contact the Shop directly.
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This book is a must for historians, genealogists and those that served. It contains overviews of the Signals ORBAT at specific times in history; detailed precis of specialist signals units; History of 35 Commonwealth and related Corps; Scores of Unit histories regular & TA.

Softback    £24.95

CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK

A fine and meticulously researched book, capturing quite brilliantly the special spirit of the early SAS.

Softback £7.99

This illustrated history begins shortly after the Battle of Trafalgar with the introduction of the Shutter Telegraph.  It follows the development of fixed military communications to the present day.

Hardback    £19.99

CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK

23 rd April 1943 saw the formation of what was to become one of the most renowned Airborne Divisions in History - the 6th Airborne Division.  A well illustrated history.

Hardback £17.99
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Robin Painters fascinating memories of War in Burma with the Chindits & the 'forgotten' 14th Army.

Hardback    £19.95

This is a particularly well crafted and well researched account of Mi6 Communications from 1939-1945.  There are many personal accounts and photographs from personnel who were involved in this most secret war activity.  381 pages of fascinating reading.  Not to be missed

Hardback £29.99

The Royal Signals Museum Archive contains a vast number of unique photographs many never seen in the public domain. These portray the history of Army signalling from the Crimean War onwards.  This history presents a chronology of the Corps using  images from the Museum Archive.

Softback    £12.99

A brief and well illustrated history of boy soldiering in the Army and Royal Signals.  Tracing the history of the Army Apprentices College, Harrogate from its opening in 1947 to its closure in 1996. 

Hardback    £19.95
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The personal experience ofconscription from 1950-53.  From 'Call-Up' and training at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire with the Royal Corps of Signals to Service in Korea.

Softback £9.99

Lucky Signaller is a record of an unusually varied military career giving a look behind the normally closed doors, at those who dfend us.  Michael Hancock jioned the Royal Corps of Signals in 1937 and writes frankly about former colleagues and the workings of NATO.

Hardback £15.95

Tommy Thomas telss the story of 40 years of travel and adventure as a British soldier.  Full of incident and humour, this is a detailed account of vanished eras and altered places.

Hardback  £7.95

Personal reflection on life in the Royal Corps of Signals by Marson Holbrook

Softback £5.99
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A compelling account of the authors involvement in the major European campaigns of the Second World War and his miraculous survival of nine potentially fatal war incidents.

Hardback £14.95

The responsibility of the Royal Corps of Signals is to maintain the link of communications between battlefields and HQ, commanders & soldiers, to provide electronic intelligence and electronic warfare.  The Vital Link examines the diverse aspects and traces the complex techniques, technologies, and Signals Tactics since the Second World War.

Hardback    £16.00

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Volume 1

Louis Meulstee's excellent reference book details the technical history of all the military wireless sets numbered from the No 1 Wireless Set to the No 88 Wireless Set.  Includes many circuit diagrams and photographs.

Softback    £28.50

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Volume 2

Details the technical history of British Army Wireless Sets that were used during World War 2.  Includes many circuit diagrams and photographs.

 

Hardback    £38.00
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Volume 3

Details the technical history of Receivers used by the British Army.  Includes many circuit diagrams and photographs.

Hardback    £38.00

CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK

Volume 4

Details the histroy of Clandestine and Special Forces wireless sets. Includes many circuit diagrams and photographs.

Hardback    £38.00

A photographic record of Apprentice Boys who joined the Royal Corps of Signals between the years of 1942 - 1948

Softback £9.99
DVD Video
 
Certa Cito
A history of the Royal Corps of Signals.
 
From C Telegraph Troop Royal Engineers to the Falklands War and the Gulf.