Good Luck to All the Lads: the Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43

Author(s): Peter Cox

New Zealand

The Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43 'Good luck to all the lads'. Brian Cox wrote those words in his diary on 26 August 1940, just before he and his mates from 9 Platoon of 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion experience enemy action for the first time in the Western Desert. Good Luck To All The Lads is the story of Brian Cox and his schoolmates from Nelson College and of 9 Platoon during the Second World War. This moving and fascinating book written by Brian's son Peter Cox, covers the men's time training in New Zealand and Egypt, the action they saw in Greece, Libya and the Western Desert. It is a memorial to the young men, many of them from Nelson College, who bravely served, and sometimes died, so far from home. Over 110 phots & maps.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780473139490
  • : Nationwide Books
  • : Nationwide Books
  • : September 2008
  • : 240mm X 170mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Cox
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
  • : 940.5441293092
  • : 940.5441293092
  • : 260
  • : 260
  • : Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military; True stories: war / combat / elite forces
  • : Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military; True stories: war / combat / elite forces
  • : illustrations, maps
  • : illustrations, maps