Dunkirk to D-Day
The Men and Women of the RAOC and Re-Arming the British Army
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2021
Summary
At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result.
The story begins in Victorian south London. It goes out to Portuguese East Africa and then to Malaya, before being caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. Between the wars, its leading characters work at Pilkington, Dunlop and En…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526794307 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526794306 |
| Author: | Philip Hamlyn Williams |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword History |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Philip Hamlyn Williams
Phil Hamlyn Williams’s father, Major-General Sir Leslie (‘Bill’) Williams, was head of the RAOC in WW2. His mother, Major-General Williams’s secretary and later wife, kept albums, diaries and recollections which recorded the work of the RAOC in remarkable details. Now a historian, Phil has written War on Wheels and Ordnance on the history of the RAOC in the first and second world wars.
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