From the Great War to the Gulf
Major General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiments greatest heroes of the Second World War. As a young tank commander, he fought Rommels Afrika Korps in the Western Desert of Egypt, before becoming trapped for six months in the siege of ...
To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but here, George Forty presents it as it was during the Second World War. When war was declared in 1939, the British Army was very much the 'Cinderella' of the three armed serv...
"Forty, well known for his work on armored warfare and his illustrated campaign histories, illuminates the experience of tank warfare through interviews, personal communications and oral histories." --Publishers Weekly on Tank Warfare in the Second World War
Lieutenant Colonel George Forty OBE. FMA is an acclaimed author of many military history books, including The British Army Handbook.