For anyone wanting to research and recreate the LRDG raid on Barce (Bar-Chay) for themselves here are a few books that I found to be invaluable. All of these are top notch titles but I have given each book a rating based on how useful they were when researching this particular action.
★★★☆☆ Good - Well researched with some new insights and/or original illustrations
★★★★☆ Excellent - Original, insightful, clear, readable. A valuable resource.
★★★★★ Outstanding - A 'must have' book for this subject.
By Brendan O'Carroll
Ngaio Press 2005
★★★★★
The Long Range Desert Group: 1940-1945: Providence Their Guide
By Major General David Lloyd Owen
Pen and Sword Books 2000
★★★★☆
Desert Raiders: Axis and Allied Special Forces 1940-43
Battle Orders Series
By Andrea Molinari
Osprey 2007
★★★☆☆
The Italian Army 1940-45: Africa 1940-43
Men-at-Arms Series
By Philip Jowett and Stephen Andrew
Osprey 2001
★★★☆☆
The following books don't necessarily reference the Barce Raid but were very useful for getting a feel for what the raid would have been like.
Stirling's Desert Triumph: The SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids 1942
Raid Series
By Gavin Mortimer
Osprey 2015
★★★★☆
One of the Originals
By Johnny Cooper
Pan Books 1991
★★★☆☆
Long Range Desert Group
By Kennedy Shaw
Greenhill Books 2000 (Reprint of Collins 1945)
★★★★☆
The Desert my Dwelling Place
By David Lloyd Owen
Cassell 1957
★★★☆☆
The following books don't necessarily reference the Barce Raid but were very useful for getting a feel for what the raid would have been like.
Raid Series
By Gavin Mortimer
Osprey 2015
★★★★☆
One of the Originals
By Johnny Cooper
Pan Books 1991
★★★☆☆
Long Range Desert Group
By Kennedy Shaw
Greenhill Books 2000 (Reprint of Collins 1945)
★★★★☆
The Desert my Dwelling Place
By David Lloyd Owen
Cassell 1957
★★★☆☆
Sting of the Scorpion
By Mike Morgan
History Press 2010
★★★★☆
I recently had a Kindle splurge on Amazon as we're soon to be fighting an operational game (fought over 10 tables - actually 12 if you count off-table artillery and airfields) in 6mm set in the desert in WW2. The following books are great as source material for the desert - especially German Methods (a US Army technical account of how the Germans set up and fought in desert conditions).
ReplyDeleteGerman Methods of Warfare in the Libyan Desert
The Desert War: The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43
The Battle of El Alamein: Decision in the Desert
The Tank War: The Men, the Machines and the Long Road to Victory