British Army 1939–45 (2)

Martin Brayley is a military photographer whose Royal Navy service has taken him all over the world. A long-time militaria collector, he has contributed many articles to specialist magazines and is the author of ‘WWII British Women's Uniforms in Colour Photographs’ (1995) and ‘The World War II Tommy’ (1998). An expert marksman, he has represented Great Britain at international level. He lives in Hampshire with his wife and two children. Mike Chappell comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952 and retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He began painting military subjects in 1968 and since then has gained worldwide popularity as a military illustrator. Mike has also written and illustrated many books in the Osprey Military list.

• Organisation of the British Army in Egypt, 1939-40Development and reinforcement of 8th Army in North Africa, 1941-421st Army, 1942-43Campaign summaryPre-war tropical uniformsDevelopment, 1940-44Insignia practiceForeign-made uniforms: Empire, Commonwealth and US

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