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Against Odds Reflections on the Experiences of the British Army, 1914-45

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Against Odds is a historian's critical reflections on the two wars that his father and he fought, a generation apart, as young men. He fits his own experiences between the age of 19 and 24 in campaigns in Norway, the Battle of Britain, the Western Desert and Northwest Europe, and as a prisoner of war in Italy, into a historical frame drawn from documentary records. He concludes that in both wars relatively poorly equipped British armies learned to counter their efficient German opponents by burying them under tons of high explosive. He compares Douglas Haig and Bernard Montgomery, the leading commanders in the wars.