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‘Unprepared’, 1939–41 /Home defence, 1940–4 /From the Desert to Italy, 1940–5 /The Far East, 1940–5 /‘Deserve Victory’, 1944–5 /Suggested Reading /Index
A detailed and truthful account of life as a British Tommy during the Second World War, revealing what it was really like to fight for Britain and the everyday activities experienced in between the fighting.
Peter Doyle is a scientist and military historian specialising in the role of terrain in warfare. In addition to numerous scientific books and papers, he has written: The British Soldier of the First World War (Shire 2008),Tommy's War 1914–1918 (Crowood 2008), The Home Front: 1939-45 (Crowood, 2007, with Paul Evans); Beneath Flanders Fields: The Underground War 1914-18 (Spellmount, 2004, with Peter Barton and Johan Vandewalle) and Grasping Gallipoli (Spellmount, 2005, with Peter Chasseaud). He is co-secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group, and is an elected member of the British Commission for Military History. He lives in London.
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