The Desert War
George Forty, The Desert War
Sutton Publishing Ltd 2002 | 272 pages | ISBN: 9780750928106 | PDF | 82 MB
In the summer of 1940, Mussolini aimed to conquer North Africa, only to
be routed by far smaller British and Commonwealth forces who drove out
the invaders and captured the entire Italian Tenth Army. This defeat
led Hitler to send the Deutsches Afrika Korps, commanded by Rommel, to
bolster the Axis forces in Africa. From April 1941, the "Desert Fox"
and his Allied opponents fought many bitter battles across the
inhospitable deserts of North Africa. The battle of Alam Halfa in July
1942 saw Rommel thwarted just outside Cairo and the Suez Canal. The
battle of El Alamein in October that year was the turning point in
North Africa, with Rommel being forced into a long and stubborn
withdrawal towards Tunisia. The Germans were forced to fight on two
fronts after the Allied "Torch" landings in French North Africa, and
were finally defeated in May 1943. In this title, military writer
George Forty tells the story of these turbulent campaigns through the
camera lens, in a series of photographs illustrating every aspect of
the Desert War, supported by clear, concise text.
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