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Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007598182
Version: 2014–10–09
To the generations who experienced the lightning strikes 1914–1945
Contents
PART I THE FRONT LINE EXPERIENCE
Chapter 1 A personal reflection on the two World Wars
J. M. Bourne
Chapter 2 Preparing for war: the experience of the Cameronians
John Baynes and Cliff Pettit
Chapter 3 Waging the undersea war: a British perspective
Jeff Tall
Chapter 4 The merchant seaman at war
Tony Lane
Chapter 5 War in the air: the fighter pilot
David Jordan
Chapter 6 War in the air: the bomber crew
Christina Goulter
Chapter 7 The Desert War experience
Niall Barr
Eric Bergerud
Chapter 9 War in the Tropics: East Africa and Burma
Phillip Parotti
Chapter 10 Hitting the beach: the amphibious experience
Geoffrey Till
Chapter 11 British Special Forces operations behind enemy lines
Julian Thompson
Chapter 12 Partisans and guerrillas
Malcolm Mackintosh
Chapter 13 The experience of being abroad: doughboys and GIs in Europe
James J. Cooke
Chapter 14 German soldiers in victory, 1914 and 1940
Benjamin Ziemann and Klaus Latzel
Chapter 15 The experience of defeat: Kut (1916) and Singapore (1942)
Robin Neillands
Chapter 16 The experience of killing
Joanna Bourke
Chapter 17 The experience of captivity: British and Commonwealth prisoners in Germany
Peter H. Liddle and S. P. McKenzie