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LARKHILL'S WARTIME LOCATORS

by Massimo Mangilli-Climpson

Published by Pen & Sword Military. 1st. 2007

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. The History of Twelve Artillery Survey Regiments (RA and IA) in the Second World War. A complete study of artillery survey in the Second World War. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 698 pages plus appendices and index.

A lovely copy, appears unread! 3" (in length) mark to spine at top rear edge of pictorial dustwrapper, rear panel lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 9781844155149
Stock no. 1829894

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Contents

  • 1 The Missed Years: Victory to Depression
  • 1918-38
  • 2 The Second BEF and the Miracle at Dunkirk
  • Belgium and France: 1939-40
  • 3 The Day War Broke Out..
  • Home Front: 1939-40
  • 4 All Aboard: Surveyors' Sea Travels:
  • 1940-45
  • 5 A Troop Lights up the Survey in the First Victory
  • Western Desert: Egypt and Libya October 1940-February 1941
  • 6 The Italians Lose an Empire and Their Place in the Sun
  • Eritrea: February -April 1941
  • 7 Attempt for Balkan Sun, and Another Disaster
  • Greece: April 1941
  • 8 The Strange Death and Rebirth of Survey
  • Home Front: 1940-42
  • 9 Tobruk and Alamein: Grief for the Loss of a Battery before the real Lasting Victory
  • Western Desert: Egypt and Libya
  • April 1941 - January 1943
  • 10 An Interim, a Backwater or a Holiday Front
  • Middle East: Palestine, Syria and Iraq 1942-44
  • 11 The Torch that burnt the Axis out of North Africa
  • North West Africa: Tunisia and Libya November 1942-May 1943
  • 12 Return to Europe
  • Sicily: July-August 1943
  • 13 The 'D-Day Dodgers' in the 'Soft Underbelly'
  • Italian campaign 1943-45
  • 14 Preparations for the Invasion and Doodlebug Secrets
  • Home front: 1943-45
  • 15 Victory in Europe: The March from Normandy to Berlin
  • NW Europe Campaign 1944-45
  • 16 The Forgotten Army's Push over the Hills and Roads to Rangoon by the Remembered Survey
  • Burma: 1943-45
  • 17 A Long Indian Summer
  • Survey Section, RA India - 1st indian
  • Survey Regiment, IA 1926-47
  • 18 The Forgotten Surveyors
  • Life Behind the Wire: 1940-45
  • 19 After the Bomb
  • 1945-47
  • 20 The Old World keeps on turning
  • 1945-2005
  • Appendices

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