The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
By Captain G. K. Rose. (Oxford : Blackwell. 7s. 6d. net.)—Captain Rose's history of his battalion is a model of lucidity ; the maps and photographs are excellent, and the book is well printed. The battalion is too small a unit for the historian of the late war ; the author, indeed, has to say a good deal about the 184th Brigade and the 61st Division, in which the battalion was incorporated, to make his narrative clear. The battalion went to France in May, 1916, saw the fatiguing end of the battle of the Somme and the pursuit, and took part in the battle of Arras and the hard fighting in the Saliefit in- 1917. It was almost destroyed in the German offensive of March, 1918, when it was in the front line near Fayet ; only fifty men returned. However, the battalion was re-formed and fought on the Lys through the summer. The Armistice found it east of Cambrai. Captain Rose has done his work admirably.
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