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Product Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-101848847661
ISBN-139781848847668
eBay Product ID (ePID)150596188
Product Key Features
Book TitleFighting with the Desert Rats : an Infantry Officer's War with the Eighth Army
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorMartin Mace, H. P. Samwell, John Grehan
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisThis is a descriptive account of what it was like to serve as an Infantry Officer with the Desert Army in the Western Desert and Sicily between 1942 and 1943. The author is Major H.P. Samwell, MC, who was unfortunately killed on 13 January 1945, whilst serving with the 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st Highland Division. The chapters include: FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EGYPT AND ITS WARTIME POPULATION * JOINING THE EIGHTH ARMY THE BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN * THE ATTACK IS RENEWED * IN A SOUTH AFRICAN HOSPITAL (The author was very badly wounded during the fighting, an event he graphically describes - along with lying in a trench, with an injured German soldier, awaiting rescue) AT THE INFANTRY TRAINING DEPOT AND UP THE LINE * FROM SIRTE TO TRIPOLI * EARLY DAYS IN FRONT OF THE MARETH LINE * ROMMEL ATTACKS * PATROLS AND KEEPS * HOSPITAL IN TRIPOLI UP THE LINE AGAIN * RESTING IN SFAX * ENFIDAVILLE AND THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN * TRAINING FOR SEA INVASION (Sicily) * FOLLOWING THE SICILY CAMPAIGN FROM AN AFRICAN BASE LANDING IN SICILY AND MOVE TO MESSINA * PROBLEMS OF OCCUPATION
LC Classification NumberD811
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