LARKHILL'S WARTIME LOCATORS
Written by Massimo Mangilli-Climpson
Published by Pen & Sword Military
in 2007
ISBN: 9781844155149
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- ARTILLERY
- HISTORY
- REGIMENTAL HISTORY (UK)
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Front cover
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