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Eighth Army Veterans City of Manchester |
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Library Our online library contains articles about the experiences of members and subjects of interest to them. We hope that you will find something of interest to read.
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| Article | Author |
| El Alamein Recollections | Various |
| Enham Alamein | Doris |
| Anzio Recollections | Various |
| VE Day Recollections | Various |
| Jack Stace | |
| Rat or Super Rat? | Sydney Robinson |
| The Libyan Desert | Fred Heald |
| D Day Dodgers | MV |
| Ken Crutchley Photograph Album | EAVM |
| Harry's Photograph Album | |
| Medicine & Victory | Dr. Mark Harrison |
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If you wish to learn or read more about the desert armies, we suggest you look at our bibliography below. Most public libraries contain some books about the Eighth Army's campaigns and/or would be able to obtain any of these for you on order at nominal cost. Alternatively, you may purchase via most leading online bookstores. We recommend www.amazon.co.uk (for in print) or www.abebooks.com (for out of print). |
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Description & Review |
| War Without Hate | John Bierman & Colin Smith | The authors bothered to speak with desert veterans, including the redoubtable Sam Bradshaw, our former National Chairman and friend. An excellent account. |
| El Alamein | Stephen Bungay | Another excellent read. Again an author who bothered finding men who were there. |
| A Green Hill Far Away | Fred Hirst | A superb book by one of our own. Handy reading if you ever plan to jump from a train, hike through the Appenines without kit or seek shelter with the enemy during an air raid. |
| Battalion | Alastair Borthwick | An account of the Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Europe that is widely regarded as one of the best written accounts of front line fighting to emerge from the war. |
| Take these Men | Cyril Joly | We were a citizen army and the title of Cyril Joly's book acknowledges this. He has a style that is a bit dated now but it reflects the way we were then (particularly the officers). A truthful and poignant account of tanks in the desert war. |
| Poems from the Desert | Eighth Army Servicemen | A striking anthology of poems written by servicemen, published during the war. |
| Poems from Italy | Eighth Army Servicemen | More poems published during the war. |
| Tomorrow to be Brave | Susan Travers | A true story of an adventurous lady, who ended up with the Free French Forces at Bir Hacheim. |
