Table of Contents

Part 1 World War I: the beginnings in 1914-15; expansion of AA defence and developing the art 1915; Gotha bombers and new defence for London 1917-18; campaigns outside France 1915-18. Part 2 The inter-war years: the fallow years 1919-35; the new generation of AA equipment 1936-40; rearmament and expansion - home and overseas. Part 3 World War II - the early campaigns: introductory survey of wartime changes, the development of radar in air defence, with some notes on counter-measures and "Ultra"; the campaign in Norway 1940; the B.E.F. in France and Belgium 1939-40; the Middle East, Egypt and the Western Desert; Greece and Crete; the Middle East, Alamenin and after 1942-43; the Siege of Malta; North Africa and First Army 1942-43. Part 4 Lesser campaigns - the Far East, Sicily and Italy: lesser campaigns and outlying places 1940-44; East Africa, Syria and the Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Tenth Army and Paiforce, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, the Aegean, the Faroes, Iceland, the Far East - Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies,; the Far East - Burma and Eastern India 1941-42; Ceylon; the reconquest of Burma 1943-45; Indian AA artillery; Sicily and Southern Italy 1943; Italy 1943-45. Part 5 Northwest Europe 1944-45: "Overlord" and the Normandy Landings; from Normandy into Belgium and Holland; Antwerp, Brussels and the "Diver" defences; the winter battles and the Rhine crossings. Part 6 Anti-aircraft command: the First year of war; the Battle of Britain June-September 1940; the "Blitz" of 1940-41 and its background; the mid-war years; "Fringe targets", "The Baedeker" raids; the final tests; "Overlord" and "Diver". Part 7 The post-war years of 1955: AA artillery post-1945.