Tried And Valiant - The Story Of The Border Regiment 1702-1959

Regimental histories have a special tone: half family album, half battle record, with the quiet assumption that mud, marching, and duty are character-building whether anyone asked or not.

Tried and Valiant by Douglas Sutherland tells the story of the Border Regiment from 1702 to 1959, following more than two and a half centuries of service, campaigns, postings, reforms, hardships, and soldiering across a changing British Army.

This is history at close formation. Not just grand strategy and famous dates, but the identity of a regiment: its traditions, honours, men, officers, battles, losses, and the stubborn continuity that carries a name through wars and generations.

There is a pleasing irony in the title. “Tried and Valiant” sounds polished and ceremonial, but the reality behind it was usually wet boots, bad food, long marches, terrifying noise, and the sort of courage that had very little time to look noble.

This good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for readers of military history, regimental history, British Army collectors, and anyone who understands that the past was not only made by generals, but by units that kept going because that was what they were there to do.

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