This book aims to present a balanced and comprehensive picture of the British Army in wartime from the early days of the BEF, through the years of defeat and struggle in the early 1940s. This handbook gives full details of mobilization and training, higher organization and arms of the service, divisional organizations and non-divisional units, HQs and staff. Also the combat arms and the services, the individual soldier, his weapons and equipment based on that used in 1944, tactics, weapons, vehicles and equipment, vehicle markings and camouflage, the ATS and other Women's' Corps.
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George Forty served in the Royal Tank Unit for 33 years, and is a former curator at the British Tank Museum.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: British Army Handbook 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
A good reference source for the British Army at the height of its glory in WW2. Covers the organizational history of the British Army during WW2. The book not only covers the more well known aspects of the Britich Army but covers the lesser known parts of the Combat Service and Combat Service Suppport elements.A good companion volume to the US Army Handbook that also covers WW2. A must read for many wargamers and a should read for all WW2 Histary buffs.
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A good read but lacking data,
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This review is from: The British Army Handbook 1939-1945 (Paperback)
I quite enjoyed reading this publication; I found it to be informative and well thought out. But the text is very light on hard statistical data, relying more on broad generalisations through creative descriptions with little in the way of hard statistical data. If you are looking to read about the British army in World War II this is the book for you, but if your looking for a book with facts and figures such as notes on equipment, weapons, vehicles, etc - then this is not the book for you.
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