Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation of armoured warfare in such inhospitable conditions, warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind. From 1940 to 1943 the battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again; for most of the time the British armour (of which a great deal was obsolescent or plain obsolete) was either outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel's Afrikakorps, while occasionally suffering the ineptitudes of higher command. Highly praised when it was published in 1955, this is a first-hand narrative of these campaigns as scan through the eyes of a young officer in the 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats. Take These Men tells of fortitude in hardship, courage in the face of odds, of great events that are a legitimate source of pride to those who endured them. 'A vivid and accurate piece of reporting'The Literary Supplement `As observation and as writing it is exceptional'Manchester Guardian `Carries us back into the atmosphere of the Western Desert Kith an almost uncanny waft of sight and smell ... a remarkable saga of armour: the first of its genus, the best of its species'Bernard Fergussun.. Sunday Times

Take These Men (Echoes of War)

History

Joly, Cyril

Americas

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The Massacre of Glencoe (Echoes of War)

Buchan, John.

Europe

A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (Echoes of War Series) Book by Buy Chapman. This is a WWI memoir from a former English soldier who later became a historian and university professor.

A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (Echoes of War Series)

Chapman, Guy

Physical description: 313p. ; 22cm. Notes: Originally published: London : Bell, 1920. Includes index. Subject: World War, 1914-1918 - Aerial operations, British - Personal narratives, British - Aerial operations. World War 1. Air operations by Great Britain - Royal Air Force - Personal observations - Correspondence, diaries, etc. Royal Naval Air Service. Series: Echoes of war. Other titles: R.F.C., H.Q., 1914-1918. Genre: Autobiography.

Flying Corps Headquarters, 1914-1918 (Echoes of War)

Baring, Maurice

There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author's experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement - all are built into a vigorous and authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps.returncharacterreturncharacter returncharacterreturncharacter REVIEWS returncharacterreturncharacter'Beautifully written with a poet's eye as well as a pilot's eye.' Southern Evening Echo'The only book about flying that isn't flannel.' Anonymous Fighter Pilot'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter.

Winged Victory (Echoes of War)

Yeates, V.M.

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MOSS, W. Stanley

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FARRAR-HOCKLEY, Anthony

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Lehmann, Joseph

Africa

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A Child at Arms (Echoes of War)

Davis, Patrick

Account by infantryman on Western Front in World War I.

Middle Parts of Fortune (Echoes of War)

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Manning, Frederic

Contemporary

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