Review: TRACKS – the Magazine commemorating the LRDG

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Issue no. 2 has the full first-hand story on the 3-ton F60L CMP truck found in the desert. And a detailed article on the iconic 30-cwt Chevrolet LRDG truck, plus many other interesting articles - well worth reading!

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TRACKS Revival 2022 (The Magazine commemorating the LRDG)
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TRACKS was a “one issue” magazine done by the LRDG and distributed in Kufra in June 1941. In 2021, eighty years after, it was “revived” by a group of authors, not out of a commercial interest but of pure enthusiasm for the subject: The LRDG.
The reception of TRACKS 2021 was very well, the reader’s feedback all very positive. This encouraged the authors to go for TRACKS 2022. Again, we have a “bunch” of LRDG-related articles, topics not too widely known, which should find the interest of the LRDG enthusiast.
TRACKS 2021 consisted of 52 pages – TRACKS 2022 has substantially “grown” to 64 pages containing 148 illustrations and photographs.

CONTENT 2022
• Howard’s Cairn --- Kuno Gross
• Now & Then: Siwa, Cleoptatra’s Pool --- Kuno Gross
• LRP - First Reconnaissance Mission --- Bob Amos-Jones
• Who was Norman Moore? (2) --- David Redhead
• Patrol Truck Chevrolet 1533X2 --- Charlie Down
• Badges and Insignia of the LRDG --- Brendan O’Carroll
• LRDG Memorials --- B. O’Carroll, K. Gross and M. Kennedy Shaw
• LRDG poem --- J. G. Medemmen
• Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo --- Sam Watson
• Raiding Forces Wings --- Sam Watson
• LRDG silver Goblet carved Bone Knife --- Sam Watson
• Fata Morgana or Reality? --- Tarek el Mahdy
• Recovery from the Desert --- Mohamed Nabil (Translated by Tarek el Mahdy)
• Attempting Identification --- Kuno Gross
• LRDG Heavy Section - Marmon Herrington --- Erik Ahlström
• Sgt. Fraser's Cigarette Case --- Jack Valenti
• B122 Conduct Sheets (Continued) --- Ian Chard
Magazine details:
• Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
• Language: English
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Illustrations & photos: 148
• ISBN: 978-3-755-71623-5
• Dimensions: 19 x 27 cm