Book review: Second World War, by Richard Pelvin

By Reviewer: David Ellery
Updated October 8 2014 - 10:08am, first published September 26 2014 - 11:45pm
Pilots being trained on De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moths at No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, Tamworth.
Pilots being trained on De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moths at No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, Tamworth.
Nursing sisters were evacuated from Singapore before the capitulation but this was to lead to tragedy - as shown by the fates of these sisters of the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, 8th Division photographed at Tangog, Singapore, on January 20, 1942.
Nursing sisters were evacuated from Singapore before the capitulation but this was to lead to tragedy - as shown by the fates of these sisters of the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, 8th Division photographed at Tangog, Singapore, on January 20, 1942.
The thousand-yard stare: The strain of the close combat shows on the faces of the infantrymen of the 2/12th Battalion. They had just helped to silence a Japanese mountain gun on Mount Prothero on January 22, 1944.
The thousand-yard stare: The strain of the close combat shows on the faces of the infantrymen of the 2/12th Battalion. They had just helped to silence a Japanese mountain gun on Mount Prothero on January 22, 1944.

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