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The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the
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- Objectstaat
- ISBN-13
- 9781907677656
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- Publication Name
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- ISBN
- 9781907677656
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Eyes of the Desert Rats : British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Helion & Company, The Limited
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Africa / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 330 Pages
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Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British Yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Indian Army men, the Long Range Desert Group was perhaps the most effective of all the "special forces" established by the Allies during the Second World War. It was able to go thousands of miles into enemy territory, well-armed and carrying its own supplies of petrol, food and even water to last for weeks at a time - something quite new in military history. Using experience acquired in WWI and inter-war exploration travels, the LRDG thus developed the ability to appear almost anywhere in the desert to carry out almost every type of ground reconnaissance mission possible in desert warfare, exploring and mapping the terrain, transporting agents behind enemy lines or determining the strength and location of enemy forces with an extraordinary degree of accuracy and detail and thus able to verify or hide Ultra intelligence. Equally important were their skills in the art of desert navigation, demonstrated in the outflanking of the enemy during the Allied advance from El Alamein westward to Tunisia, as led by the LRDG. Once it had teamed up with the Special Air Service (SAS), made up of British, Free French, Commonwealth and Jewish Palestinian soldiers, the LRDG perfected the art of irregular mechanized warfare conducted in the rear of the enemy's forces in the desert, attacking enemy installations of all kinds, mining roads, raiding airfields, destroying enemy aircraft on the ground and inflicting losses upon the enemy in inverse proportion to their own remarkably low rate of casualties. Through meticulous research in original archival material, this book thus tells the extraordinary story of how a relatively small number of dedicated men developed the methods and techniques for crossing by motor vehicle the depths of the then unmapped and seemingly impassable great deserts of Egypt and Libya, the Western Desert, during the British Army's North African Campaign of 1940-43. The Long Range Desert Group and the Special Air Service as a matter of course did extraordinary things - the heroic was the commonplace. Their tactics, techniques and remarkable success in desert warfare continue to make them of great interest to the student of military affairs. Likewise, as it seeks to answer how the deep desert can best be used for military purposes, this study is pertinent to today's military operations, perhaps more so than at any time since World War II. "...this study provides fresh insights into the nature of desert warfare, past, present and future... [and] reveals the peculiarities of this warfare often lost to modern armies... a virtual primer, useful to commanders and soldiers alike. At long last this book can find its rightful place in the classroom of military courses and colleges and in the hands of those interested in the intricacies, complexities and problems of military operations in desert regions". From the Foreword to the book by Colonel (Retired) David M. Glantz.
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Publisher
Helion & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1907677658
ISBN-13
9781907677656
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111842847
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eyes of the Desert Rats : British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Africa / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
330 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D766.82
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... This is the well-researched, rounded and balanced account of long-range reconnaissance and raiding in the Western Desert that has been needed and lacking for a long time.
Copyright Date
2012
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