With Pennants Flying: The Immortal Deeds of the Royal Armoured Corps

by David Masters

Overview

Originally published in 1943, this book tells the story of the battles and campaigns of the Armoured regiments of the British Army in the early period of WWII.

It includes BEF operations in France, 1940, the Western Desert fighting the Italians and later the Germans, Siege of Tobruk, the ill-fated Greek Campaign and battle for Crete, and the early battles in Burma.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787204454
Publisher:	Arcole Publishing
Publication date:	04/07/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

David Masters (20 January 1883 - 24 May 1965) was a British journalist and prolific author of non-fiction books. Born Charles Edwin Brand in Marylebone, London, he became known under the pen-name “David Masters.”

He was the son of William John Brand (a greengrocer) and his wife Ada (nee Upson), who had married in 1875. William John Brand died in 1889 at the age of 37, whilst Charles was still only eight, and his mother raised the family of three sons and one daughter, running a newsagent with the assistance of her sister, Emma Jane Upson. Ada Brand also died young, at the age of 39, in 1895. The children were then raised by their Aunt Emma.

At the time of the 1901 census, Charles Brand was working as a grocer’s assistant in Putney. One of his books also noted that he was a salvage expert and hard hat diver who worked upon the sunken German fleet at Scapa Flow.

During his journalistic career, he was a contributor to Wide-World Magazine, Conquest, Saturday Evening Post, Traveller’s Pack and Pictorial Magazine. His first non-fiction book, The Romance of Excavation. A record of the amazing discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc., was published in 1923.

He died at 10 Belsize Park, Hampstead, London N.W.3 on 24 May 1965, aged 82.