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PUBLISHED TO-DAY The River Doon

... , besides its geography. 128 pp. Demy Bvo., 32 pp. half-tone Illustrations, fronts. 15/- net The Camouflage Story by GEOFFREY BARKAS The build-up of supplies for the Alamein offensive presented many problems, but the successful solution to each of them ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1952
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Barkas Leaves Shell

... Barkas Leaves Shell Wed., If 8 10.30 Gaumont Renown After nearly ten years as Shell-Mex and BP's film producer, Mr. Geoffrey Barkas retires at the end of this month from that company and joins Random Film Productions—wellknown makers of industrial documentary ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1956
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 98 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Sticks and string

... difficult. But it was done, by the ingenuity of man, with the help of sticks and string and canvas, says ex-camouflage man Geoffrey Barkas in The Camouflage Story (Cassell, 12s. 6d.). For until those massed guns blazed away —and the chameleon army showed ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1952
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Haverhill witness in Soho club case

... worth about £l2 at the Casino Club, Wardour Mews, on January |1 McGeown was also sent fcr trial charged with robbing Mr. Geoffrey Barkas, cf D'Arcy Gardens, Ken- | ton Middlesex, of a watch and a wallet, worth together , 15, at a Soho club, and using violence ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1968
Newspaper: Haverhill Echo
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MORE JOINING FILM _IC 4DEMY

... Donner, Guy Hamilton. Herbert Mason. Oswald Morris. Terence Verity (feature films): chairman. 1. D. Wrattcn. Messrs. Geoffrey Barkas, James Carr, E. Allan Crick. Martin Curtis, J. B. Holmes, Alan Lawson, and Grahame Tharp (documentary and specialised ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1955
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Bocks of the Week CAMOUFLAGE How the British Army deceived

... extensive and effective were the preparations which deceived Rommel so successfully. The book is “ The Camouflage Story,” by Geoffrey Barkas (Cassell, 12s 6d net). Mr, Barkas (or to give him his military description, Lt.-Col. G. Barkas, 0.8 E., M.C) served in ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1952
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Deception in the desert

... Deception in the desert The Camouflage Story, by Geoffrey Barkas (Cassell. 12s. 6d./. Here is a first-hand description which should interest artists. the W.VS., and Service men and women in general. of the app:ication of principles of camouflage In the ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1952
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

In the Face of the Enemy

... THE DAWN. By Derrick Nabarro. (12s 6d. Cassell) ESCAPE—OR DIE. By Paul Brickhill. (Iss. Evans) THE CAMOUFLAGE STORY. By Geoffrey Barkas. (12s 6d. Cassell.) 1t s specially interesting to get so intimate and detailed a picture of the submarine war from both ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1952
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1128 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Ruse at El Alamein

... Ruse at El Alamein THE CAMOUFLAGE BTOKY. Geoffrey Barkas. (Cassell. 12s. Bd.) FOURTEEN words, spoken by Mr. Churchill In the House of Commons on November 11, 1942, described one of the mo6t audacious feats of modern times. He was announcing the victory ...

12 News Reporter Thursday February 1 1973 URGENT BLOOD DONORS ARE NEEDED Now here is what to do about it

... author of what became an Army instructional poem was Lieut-Col Geoffrey Barkas OBE MC Having been asked to in this column about more interesting personalities of our district it Geoffrey Barkas (who lives in Thames Ditton) that I would like to write this ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1973
Newspaper: Esher News and Mail
County: Surrey, England
Type: | Words: 3498 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

`SOLD-THE DUMMY' AND MADE HISTORY AT EL ALAMEIN

... `SOLD-THE DUMMY' AND MADE HISTORY AT EL ALAMEIN The Camouflage Story. by Geoffrey Barkas (Cassell. Its 6d). ATOT so long ago an Innumerable company through radio and Press thrilled to the inspiration of the tenth anniversary El Alamein reunion, a rousing ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1952
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 941 | Page: 4 | Tags: none