Tribute - Alwyn Turner

During the course of World War II, the men and women of Britain's armed forces served in every continent and on every ocean. They experienced almost every terrain in the world, from the mountains of Norway, through the deserts of Africa to the jungles of Asia. They struggled to gain mastery of the air and the seas.;This book tells the story of the three branches of the armed services - the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force - and how the existing structure met the demands of total war.;Despite Churchill's famous comment that before Alamein we never had a victory and after it we never had a defeat, equal weight has been given to such early successes as the Battle of Keren and such later blows as the Dodecanese expedition. In the belief that the serviceman's experience of war is not confined to the great, epoch-making battles, the assault on Madagascar is seen as being as valid as the assault on Normandy. And the "forgotten army" of the Far East is duly acknowledged, along with other such other forgotten servicemen as those in the RAF who suppressed the Iraqi uprising of 1941.