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With Rommel in the Desert: Tripoli to El Alamein

By David Mitchelhill-Green

Book information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2017
ISBN
1473878756, 9781473878754
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
62 MB (64640912 bytes)
Series
Images of War
Pages
216\0
Time added
2021-07-28 08:41:02

Description

Prior to the outbreak of war in September 1939, the German Army had focused exclusively on the operational, organisational and training preparations needed to wage war in continental Europe. The threat of an Italian collapse in North Africa in early 1941, however, prompted Hitler to reinforce his ally by sending an armoured blocking force to Libya. Not content to merely thwart the British from capturing Tripoli, Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel harried his inexperienced expeditionary force eastward towards the Nile Delta. This book is a pictorial narrative of the unfolding conflict from the arrival of the Deutsches Afrikakorps until Rommels departure from the battlefield in March 1943. We view the desert war, with its shifting fortunes and unique challenges, primarily through the lens of ordinary combatants. This is their personal record of serving with Rommel in the desert.

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