Table of Contents

‘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

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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.

About the Author

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.