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Operation Compass 1940: Wavell's whirlwind offensive

By Jon Latimer

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781846035289, 1846035287
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
37 MB (38954446 bytes)
Pages
96\0
Time added
2020-04-16 15:18:17

Description

The first battle of the desert war, 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.

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