War in the DESSERT - Neil ORPEN - VOL 111

War in the DESSERT - Neil ORPEN - VOL 111 

CONTENTS

Chairman's Foreword

Voorsitter se Voorwoord

Authors' Acknowlegements

1. The Ten-Year Rule that Ran for Twenty

11. War breaks Out

111. First Contacts at Sea

1V. Mobilization and War Against Italy

V. Chronic Shortage of White Man

V1. A Flood of Requirements

V11. The War Changes Complexion

V111. Reality Jots the Complacent

1X. Industry Getting Into Top Gear

X. The Year of Darkness Before the Dawn

X1. Potential Threat Becomes Reality

X11. U-Boats Take Heavy Toll

X111. More U-Boats Appear

XV. Facing the Facts

XV1. Putting Decisions Into Effect

XV11. Haard Battle Against the U-Boats

XV111. U-Cruisers Attack

X1X. Selfless Army of Women

XX. Dawn of Victory

XX1. The Navy Growing Up

XX11. The Place Slackens

XX111. With the End in Sight

XX1V. Homecoming

XXV. Aftermath and Reckoning

    appendixes

1. The ACF Brigades, 1939

2. ACF Infantry Battalions and Brigades, 1940

3. DGWS Annexe Factories and Their Production

4. The 16th (MEB) Armoured Car Brigade Group

5. Mobile Field Force Revised Order of Battle, 1942

6. The Armoured Corps Conference, Pretoria

7. Senior Office-Bearers of SAWAS and the SA Gifts and Comforts Fund