Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British
yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and
Indian Army men, the Long Range Desert Group was perhaps the most
effective of all the "special forces" established by the Allies
during World War II. It was able to go thousands of miles into
enemy territory, well-armed and carrying its own supplies of
petrol, food and even water to last for weeks at a time, something
previously unheard of. Using experience acquired in World War I and
inter-war exploration travels, the LRDG thus developed the ability
to appear almost anywhere in the desert to carry out almost every
type of ground reconnaissance mission possible in desert warfare,
exploring and mapping the terrain, transporting agents behind enemy
lines or determining the strength and location of enemy forces with
an extraordinary degree of accuracy and detail. Equally important
were their skills in the art of desert navigation, demonstrated in
the outflanking of the enemy during the Allied advance from El
Alamein westward to Tunisia, as led by the LRDG. Through meticulous
research in original archival material, this book tells the
extraordinary story of how a relatively small number of dedicated
men developed the methods and techniques for crossing by motor
vehicle the depths of the then unmapped and seemingly impassable
great Western Desert, during the British Army's North African
Campaign of 1940-43. Their tactics, techniques and remarkable
success in desert warfare continue to make them of great interest
to the student of military affairs. Likewise, as it seeks to answer
how the deep desert can best be used for military purposes, this
study is pertinent to today's military operations, perhaps more so
than at any time since World War II.
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