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AND WE SHALL SHOCK THEM THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Written by David Fraser
Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1983
ISBN: 0340270853

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Front cover

Cover of AND WE SHALL SHOCK THEM THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by David Fraser

Contents

  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Maps
  • Part I
  • Triumph to Tragedy
  • 1. The Rusting Sword
  • 2. The First shock
  • 3. Flight from the Continent
  • Part II
  • Reforging the Sword
  • 4. The Tools of the Trade
  • 5. Officers and Men
  • Part III
  • The Habit of Defeat
  • 6. False Dawn in Africa
  • 7. The Wehrmacht Once Again
  • 8. The Mirage of Victory
  • 9. Burnt by the Rising Sun
  • 10. The End of the Road
  • Part IV
  • The Tide Turns
  • 11. Daybreak
  • 12. Return to Europe
  • 13. Fourteenth Army
  • 14. France and Flanders Once Again
  • Part V
  • 15. The End in Italy
  • 16. The Road to Mandalay
  • 17. "Forward on Wings of Flame"
  • Appendix I Divisions of the British Army, 1939-1945
  • Appendix II Codewords used in the text
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • Index