Stephen Keoghane served for twenty-two years as the regimental medical officer to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in the UK, USA, Germany, and Afghanistan. The editor skied and played polo for his regiment, leaving regimental duty in 2016 as a Lt-Col. Stephen trained in surgery in Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. As a consultant urological surgeon in the NHS, he publishes extensively in the international scientific literature. The author writes regularly for magazines on military subjects: this is his second book with Fonthill Media. He is married and lives in rural Suffolk.
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Foreword; Editor's Preface; Author's Preface; 1: Preparing for War; 2: Towards Port Q; 3: Searchlights and Mechanisation; 4: Life in the Iraq Desert; 5: The Vichy French Attack; 6: I Meet the Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General (DAQMG); 7: The Invasion of Persia; 8: Lost in the Sand; 9: Egypt and Armour; 10: A Move to Stop Rommel; 11: El Alamein; 12: Sidi Bishr Rest Camp; 13: My Commission Arrives and Training Continues; 14: The Regiment Arrives in Italy; 15: The Colonel Runs Short of Vino; 16: News of Our Return to England; Postscript; Epilogue; Appendix I: Maps; Appendix II: The Structure of an Armoured Regiment; Appendix III: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Order of Battle; Endnotes; Bibliography.