The British Army paid a terrible price for training in modern mobile warfare, but it has learned its lesson. When it returned to the continent in June 1944—hardened by years of fighting in the African desert, Sicily, Italy, and bolstered by the industrial might of its American allies—it was a very different army, capable of facing the Wehrmacht on equal terms. Casualties in the last eleven months of the war were inevitably very high, especially after Germany went on the defensive. Braley's book tells the story of the development of the British army's organizational structure, uniforms and military equipment during the Second World War. The text is accompanied by unique photographs. The color illustrations are based on wartime documents and give an accurate idea of the characteristic elements of the uniform of the British Army. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in the history of the Second World War and military uniforms.