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Second World War Official Histories

- Volume II – Middle East and Far East (1962 reprint)

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Accession Number RCDIG1070723
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Part
Item count 1
Object type Book
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
  • Chapter 1 – The Inter–War Period, 1919–1939 (pages 1 - 25 )
  • Chapter 2 – On the Outbreak of War (pages 26 - 41 )
  • Chapter 3 – Medical Organisation (pages 42 - 70 )
  • Chapter 4 – Health and Hospitals (pages 71 - 85 )
  • Chapter 5 – Preparations in the Middle East, 1940 (pages 86 - 115 )
  • Chapter 6 – The AIF in the United Kingdom (pages 116 - 123 )
  • Chapter 7 – Bardia and Tobruk (pages 124 - 156 )
  • Chapter 8 – Advance to Benghazi (pages 157 - 176 )
  • Chapter 9 – Retreat From Cyrenaica (pages 177 - 186 )
  • Chapter 10 – Siege of Tobruk (pages 187 - 218 )
  • Chapter 11 – Medical Conditions in the Western Desert and Tobruk (pages 219 - 229 )
  • Chapter 12 – Greece (pages 230 - 272 )
  • Chapter 13 – Crete (pages 273 - 295 )
  • Chapter 14 – Syria (pages 296 - 323 )
  • Chapter 15 – Organisation and Equipment, 1941 (pages 324 - 346 )
  • Chapter 16 – Occupation of Syria (pages 347 - 364 )
  • Chapter 17 – El Alamein (pages 365 - 391 )
  • Chapter 18 – Lessons From Campaigns (pages 392 - 399 )
  • Chapter 19 – Prisoners of War in Italy and Germany (pages 400 - 418 )
  • Chapter 20 – In Australia, 1941–1942 (pages 419 - 458 )

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