Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944 - Timothy Harrison Place - HBK

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Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944: From Dunkirk to D-Day -HB 2000\nCondition\n\nPages crisp and clear with tight binding. Michael Howard's book plate to inside cover. Margin annotations. Foxing to page ends. Dust jacket has some wear. See images\nProduct Details\n\n--Format - Hardback\n--Pages - 227\n\nSynopsis\nBetween 1940 and 1944, although large numbers of British troops battled around the littorals of the Mediterranean and Burma, most of the British Army bided its time at home. Between Dunkirk and D-Day, those troops lived in a grey area, neither fully at peace nor properly at war. While they trained under virtually peacetime conditions, their colleagues overseas were gaining up-to-date battle experience. The lessons from that experience should have made the troops who crossed the Channel in summer 1944 the most thoroughly prepared soldiers ever to go into their first battle. Sadly, the results in Normandy confounded any such expectations, as in battle after battl.