Full Description
The inportance of the British Army's contribution to World War II - and of WWII in the history of the British Army - is impossible to overstate. This first of three titles covers the introduction of new uniforms and equipment, based on a new tactical doctrine, in the 1930s; the costly lessons of Norway and France, 1940; the grim period when Britain stood alone in the world against Hitler's Germany; the slow build-up to the Second Front, and the army which crossed the Channel on D-Day 1944, and liberated huge areas of Western Europe by spring 1945.
Contents
The British Army between the Wars; New weapons, new uniforms and equipment the 1937 reforms; Mobilisation & the Phoney War; Organisation of formations and units; Norway and France 1940; Development of uniforms 1940-44; Special-to-role uniforms - airborne, armoured troops, ect The Second Front development of uniforms 1944-45
