PREPARE TO MOVE WITH THE 6TH ARMOURED DIVISION IN AFRICA AND ITALY
Written by Frank Beckett
Published by Graphic Press (grimsby) Ltd.
in 1994
ISBN: 095208970X
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- ARMY
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Front cover
Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations and Maps
- Foreword
- Prologue
- 1. TROUBLES IN EUROPE
- War is declared
- The Call to Arms
- I join the 12th HAC Regiment RHA
- Emergency release
- Back in uniform
- Operation torch
- 2 NORTH AFRICA - OPERATION TORCH
- Algiers and Bone
- 78th Division and Blade Force
- Depienne and Oudna
- Into Battle
- The Battle for Longstop Hill
- The Plumber's Mates
- An Armoured Sweep
- Bou Arada
- Robaa
- The Kaserine Pass
- El Aroussa and Djebel Abiod
- The Fondouk Gap and the Kairouan Plain
- Tunis - Cape-Bopn and Victory
- 3 THE INTERLUDE / REFITTING
- The Interlude
- The First Cassino Battle
- The Second Cassino Battle
- The Third Cassino Battle
- 4 THE DIVISION MOVES TO ITALY
- To Battle Stations
- The Fourth Cassino Battle (Code name 'Honker')
- Fire
- Highway 6 - the Road to Rome
- The Hitler Line, or Senger Barrier
- X Corps
- Arezzo and the River Arno
- The Gothic Line
- 5 ON TO VICTORY
- Refitting
- The Battle of the Seno River
- The River Po and Victory
- Glossary
- Official strength of a British Armoured Division