Lina Irawan The Gentlemen’s Charge: How the RAC Volunteer Force Ushered in the Mechanization of Modern War
On the evening of August 25, 1914, the cobblestone streets of Landrecies, France, were swallowed by a darkening twilight. Toby Rawlinson, a 47-year-old British aristocrat and veteran of the Indian frontier, sat behind the wheel of a silver Hudson roadster. He was not there for a pleasure cruise or a rally; he was a volunteer […]
