Tom Barker's Memoirs: Policing Palestine 1939 (Tom Barker's Memoirs, #1) (ePub)

Please Note: Tom Barker's memoirs are now available in one ebook - Bayonets and Blue Flames - but unfortunately due to contractual arrangements can only be sold at another online store (not allowed to mention which store) until April 2015.

Tom Barker enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1938 seeing action in Palestine, the Western Desert and as a sniper on Crete.

In later life Tom became an electrician, an artist, musician, interpreter (when a prisoner of war), engineer, carpenter and most importantly of all, a prolific writer, documenting his life in this series of three books. (Please note: The eBook 'Kilted', which contains all three books, is currently only available on Amazon Kindle.)

Commencing with this book, Tom takes the reader on a real life journey mixed with humour, action, turmoil and lots of sand.

It begins when he was a small boy growing up in countryside England in the 1920's. He describes his school days and the start of his working life when he turned fourteen. Joining a road crew he travelled to Scotland where, in an effort to better his living conditions, he decided to join the Navy.

Tom headed to the nearest government recruiting building and ended up enlisting in the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.  Tom then describes his basic training through to his service in Palestine from 1939 to 1940.

Tom's memoirs provide an insight into the life of a young British soldier during the Arab revolt and the Jewish unrest in Palestine, at a time when nearly 20,000 British troops had been sent to aid the civilian authorities.

It also provides a detailed history of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders just before they were committed to the Western Desert to fight the Italians, and then on to Crete, to fight the Germans (which is described in Book 2 - Sand Storms and Sniping).