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| Author | : Alan Moorehead |
| Publisher | : Penguin Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780140275148 |
"North Africa was the site of some of the most volatile battles of World War II. For journalist Alan Moorehead, it was war in its purest form, "a knight's tournament in empty space."" "In Desert War, which includes the complete texts of The Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle, and The End of Africa, Moorehead writes about what he saw. He recounts with dazzling prose and intimate detail the heroes and legends, the soldiers and prisoners, the military strategies, the strengths and weaknesses of those involved, and portraits of generals Rommel, Montgomery, and Patton. Woven throughout are observations on the landscape, the Mediterranean shores and the vast desert, which inevitably played a role in shaping the battles. For Moorehead, "desert warfare resembled war at sea. Men moved by compass. No position was static. Each truck or tank was as individual as a destroyer."" "Written by a man who lived and breathed the conflict in North Africa during World War II, Desert War is a eyewitness account and an inspired piece of writing by a master of his craft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| Author | : John Bierman |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Africa, North |
| ISBN | : 9780142003947 |
Chased each other back and forth across the unforgiving North African landscape. Book jacket.
| Author | : Hans-Otto Behrendt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Beskrivelse af hvordan Rommel efter ankomsten til Nordafrika fik opbygget en efterretningstjeneste og af hvordan især radioopklaringen blev af stor betydning, takket være Englændernes mangelfulde sikkerhedsforanstaltninger.
| Author | : William Thomas Massey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1918 |
| Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Alan Moorehead |
| Publisher | : Aurum Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781781316733 |
Alan Moorehead was a peerless war correspondent who covered the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943. The trilogy of books he wrote on the prolonged battles between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Corps immediately drew universal acclaim, and remains and epic account as extraordinary now as it was then. This reissue of Alan Moorehead's classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-1943 will coinide with the 75th anniversary of the Battles for El Alamein in July and October 1942.
| Author | : Michael Carver |
| Publisher | : Spellmount, Limited Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781862271531 |
In this text, Field Marshal Lord Carver has used newly available first-hand historical resources to reassess the story of the British campaign in the North African desert. History shows that several key figures in these battles were wrongly criticised.
| Author | : Ken Delve |
| Publisher | : Greenhill Books |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2019-07-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1784383899 |
Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel’s Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis shipping routes across the Mediterranean he is denied those supplies. Meanwhile, the Allied build-up continues, and Montgomery holds at El Alamein and then counter attacks. Rommel is pushed back and then, in a double blow, the Allies land in Tunisia. The collapse of North Africa leads to the invasion of Italy and contributes to the final Axis defeat.But what if Rommel had won?In this alternate history, Ken Delve proposes that with a few strategic changes by the Axis powers and poor decision by Allied Commanders, the outcome of could have been very different. In this scenario, the Allied invasion in Tunisia fails, Rommel defeats Montgomery and seizes Egypt, leaving the Germans well-placed to sweep up through the Middle East, capturing oil installations and joining up with German forces in Russia.
| Author | : Kuno Gross |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2013-01 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : 9783943157345 |
| Author | : Jon Latimer |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2013-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472805402 |
A highly illustrated, absorbing account of the first battle of the desert war: the British against the Italians. Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940. Lt Gen. Richard O'Connor launched what amounted to a British 'Blitzkrieg'. In less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th Armoured Division raced across the desert to cut off the retreating Italians, and O'Connor's men destroyed 9 Italian divisions, and took 130,000 prisoners. In March 1941 General Rommel and the Afrikakorps landed at Tripoli.
| Author | : Stephen W. Sears |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
THE STORY OF THAT SEESAW WAR FROM SEPTEMBER, 1940, WHEN THE ITALIAN ARMY INVADED EGYPT UNTIL MAY 1943 WHEN THE COMBINED BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES DROVE THE AXIS DESERT ARMY INTO TUNISIA AND FORCED ITS SURRENDER. THE BOOK CONTAINS 114 ILLUSTRATIONS.
