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Book Synopsis Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya, 1940–1942 by : David Braddock
Download or read book Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya, 1940–1942 written by David Braddock and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise WWII history covers the Western Desert Campaign from Operation Compass to the Battle of El Alamein. The fighting in Libya and Egypt during the Second World War has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Korps and the iconic Battle of El Alamein, historian David Braddock reveals that there was much more to the story. This volume sheds light on the exploits of British Army commander Sir Claude Auchinleck, who took over Middle East Command in 1941. Braddock also details the leadership of Field Marshal Alexander and many other gifted commanders who led and fought in the Battles of Gazala, Bir Hakeim, Alam Halfa and Tobruk. Both the Allied and Axis powers employed weapons that have passed into immortality, such as Germany’s Tiger and Panther tanks and lethal 88mm antitank gun. The Messerschmitt BF109 fighter locked horns with desert-modified Spitfires and Hurricanes. The author highlights the vital roles of the Royal Navy, disrupting enemy supplies, and the Royal Air Force, which eventually gained command of the air.
Book Synopsis Britain's Desert War in Egypt and Libya 1940-1942 by : David Braddock
Download or read book Britain's Desert War in Egypt and Libya 1940-1942 written by David Braddock and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps and the iconic battle of El Alamein, this fine account describes that there was much more to the story than that. In addition to the role of Imperial and Italian troops, the cast of characters included the controversial Auchinleck, the long-suffering Alexander and many other gifted commanders. Gazala, Bir Hakeim, Alam Halfa and Tobruk battles were among the many fiercely fought battles. The two sides employed weapons that have passed into immortality; Germany's Tiger and Panther tanks and lethal 88mm anti-tank gun. The Messerschmitt BF109 fighter locked horns with desert-modified Spitfires and Hurricanes. The author highlights the vital roles of the Royal Navy, disrupting enemy supplies, and the Royal Air Force, which eventually gained command of the air. For a concise account of this decisive campaign, David Braddock's authoritative yet highly readable history is unlikely to be surpassed.
Book Synopsis Dilemmas of the Desert War by : Michael Carver
Download or read book Dilemmas of the Desert War written by Michael Carver and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dilemmas of the Desert War by : Michael Carver
Download or read book Dilemmas of the Desert War written by Michael Carver and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Desert War in North Africa by : Stephen W. Sears
Download or read book Desert War in North Africa written by Stephen W. Sears and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Alamein written by Stephen Bungay and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the struggle against Hitler, each of Britain's armed forces fought a battle it had to win. For the Royal Air Force it was the Battle of Britain. For the Royal Navy it was the Battle of the Atlantic. And for the army it was El Alamein. In 1940 the Battle of Britain had kept Britain in the war, only for two years of almost unrelieved disaster to follow: humiliating defeats in Greece and the Far East, and the seemingly inexorable German advance into the Soviet Union. By the summer of 1942 documents were even being burned in Cairo, as Germany's brilliant celebrity general Erwin Rommel threatened to sweep aside the Eighth Army and drive his forces through to the Suez Canal. But then in October 1942, with Churchill's government in desperate need of a military victory, British and Common-wealth troops under Montgomery embarked on a First World War-style battle of attrition in Egypt's Western Desert. After twelve days and thirteen nights they broke through the German and Italian lines at El Alamein. It was a defeat from which Rommel would never recover, and a turning-point in the war famously celebrated by Churchill as 'the end of the beginning' -- the line in the sand Hitler's forces were unable ever to cross. Like his magisterial history of the Battle of Britain, The Most Dangerous Enemy -- already acknowledged as the definitive account -- Stephen Bungay's Alamein is a trenchant re-examination of an event now cloaked in myth. Though the propaganda of the time focussed on personalities, this was a desert war, he reveals, determined largely by logistics. In a conflict that for two years had ebbed and flowed along the North African littoral, victory was always going to go to the side that mastered its supply lines -- in Britain's case not least by withstanding the epic siege of Malta. He also gets beyond the polemics and eulogies of many past writers in re-assessing Alamein's chief protagonists, Montgomery and Rommel, to show how it was precisely the most unattractive side of Montgomery's character that was needed to transform the Eighth Army into a force capable of fighting a battle it could win. But above all Alamein is a magnificently readable narrative illuminating every aspect of the desert war, from the grand strategy of the wider struggle for control of the Mediterranean to the movingly human, in a graphic evocation of the phantasmagoric blur of thunderous cannonade, baking heat and tormenting flies that was the soldier's war. In the year of the sixtieth anniversary of Alamein, this superb book is a gripping re-telling of one of the crucial battles of the war. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Destiny in the Desert by : Jonathan Dimbleby
Download or read book Destiny in the Desert written by Jonathan Dimbleby and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the significance of this episode remains unrecognised. In this thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle, charting the nail-biting months that led to the victory at El Alamein in November 1942. It is a story of high drama, played out both in the war capitals of London, Washington, Berlin, Rome and Moscow, and at the front in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morrocco and Algeria and in the command posts and foxholes in the desert. Destiny in the Desert is about politicians and generals, diplomats, civil servants and soldiers. It is about forceful characters and the tensions and rivalries between them. Drawing on official records and the personal insights of those involved at every level, Dimbleby creates a vivid portrait of a struggle which for Churchill marked the turn of the tide - and which for the soldiers on the ground involved fighting and dying in a foreign land. Now available in paperback in time, Destiny in the Desert, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman prize 2012-13, is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Desert War.
Book Synopsis The Desert War by : Jean Paul Pallud
Download or read book The Desert War written by Jean Paul Pallud and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Mussolini’s declaration of war in June 1940, initially Italy faced only those British troops based in the Middle East but as the armed confrontation in the Western Desert of North Africa escalated, other nations were drawn in — Germany, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, France and finally the United States to wage the first major tank-versus-tank battles of the Second World War. First tracing the history of the very early beginnings of civilization in North Africa, and on through the period of Italian colonization, Jean Paul Pallud begins his account when the initial shots were fired at the 11th Hussars as they approached Italian outposts near Sidi Omar in Libya. It proved to be the opening move of a campaign which was to last for three years. When the Afrikakorps led by Rommel joined the battle in February 1941, the Germans soon gained the upper hand and recovered the whole of Cyrenaica, minus Tobruk, in the summer. The campaign then swung back and forth across the desert for another year until Rommel finally captured Tobruk in June 1942 and then moved eastwards into Egypt. With British fortunes at their lowest ebb, changes in command led to Montgomery launching his offensive at El Alamein the following November. This began the advance of the Eighth Army over a thousand miles to Tunisia, resulting in the final round-up of the German and Italian forces in May 1943. Jean Paul and his camera retraced the route just prior to the recent civil war in Libya and the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, so he was fortunate to capture the locations before yet another war left its trail of death and destruction. Although the campaign in 1940-43 was dominated largely by armor, nevertheless the Allies lost over 250,000 men killed, wounded, missing and captured and the Axis 620,000. Those that never came home lie in cemeteries scattered across the barren landscape of a battlefield that has changed little in over 70 years.
Download or read book Desert Rat 1940–43 written by Tim Moreman and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's examination of the 'Desert Rats', a popular nickname used to describe first 7th Armoured Division and then all the mixed body of British Commonwealth troops - British, Australian, New Zealand and Indian - that fought against Axis forces in North Africa between 1940 and 1943. For a long period during the early years of World War II (1939-1945), this was the only theatre of war where the United Kingdom could strike back against the Axis powers, and the seesaw desert war fought out along the coast of the Mediterranean in Egypt, Libya and then Tunisia proved a harsh testing ground for British arms - in terms of organization, equipment and methods of waging war. The distinctive dress, equipment and weapons developed and carried by the Desert Rats into battle will be examined as will the expansion, organization and training of the desert army. To illustrate the distinctive combat experience gained by the Desert Rats between 1940 and 1943, three representative operations will be examined in detail - Operation Compass in 1940, the battle of Gazala in May 1942 and finally the last phase of the decisive fighting at El Alamein in October-November 1942. Accompanied by full-color illustrations, this title will shed new light on these fascinating troops.
Book Synopsis The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War by : Adrian Gilbert
Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War written by Adrian Gilbert and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extracts from memoirs, diaries, letters and interviews reflect the experience of the campaign, from the noise and smoke of battle and the vagaries of desert life to leave spent in Cairo and Alexandria, the development of the Long Range Desert Group and the SAS, Rommel and the Afrika Corps.
Book Synopsis Desert Squadron by : George Netherwood
Download or read book Desert Squadron written by George Netherwood and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert War written by Alan Moorehead and published by Penguin Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Book Synopsis War & Politics in the Desert by : Saul Kelly
Download or read book War & Politics in the Desert written by Saul Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the "War in the Desert", that epic struggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and German) and Allied (principally British Commonwealth) forces for control of North Africa, from 1940 to 1943. The current literature concentrates on the military battles, but war cannot be separated from politics: War and Politics sets out to fill this void by chronicling and analyzing the key political debates. For the first time, Kelly describes the political background to the future of the Italian colony of Libya, and the tribes, sects and factions dwelling in Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and the Fezzan, and their fundamental importance in the development of Libya towards independence in 1951. A prologue and an epilogue excellently summarise the preceding and following periods to place the story firmly within its historical context. The extensive bibliography is invaluable for those wishing to further their knowledge. With newly drawn maps taken from WWII sources and many black and white and colour photographs, some not previously published, this is not only a compelling and intellectually stimulating read but also a vivid one. The twists and turns of the politics of the war in the desert in War and Politics will be fascinating not only to the participants at the time but to historians and all readers interested in this period or geographical area.
Book Synopsis The Campaigns in Egypt and Libya by : David Wilson Braddock
Download or read book The Campaigns in Egypt and Libya written by David Wilson Braddock and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pendulum of War written by Niall Barr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive original research, the author paints a vivid picture of the fighting during the Battle of El Alamein. From the early and desperate days of July 1942 to the final, if costly, victory in November later that year, this is the story of an army that learnt from its mistakes.
Book Synopsis Operation Compass 1940 by : Jon Latimer
Download or read book Operation Compass 1940 written by Jon Latimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis North Africa 1940-1942 by : Peter Badman
Download or read book North Africa 1940-1942 written by Peter Badman and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
