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Mediterranean and the Middle East
Following its exclusion from Europe after Dunkirk, the only feasible theatre where Britain could combat Germany on land was in North Africa. Beginning with a series of British defeats inflicted on Italy, the arrival of Rommel's Afrika Korps turned the tide of war, and soon Egypt itself was in danger. Meanwhile Germany had rolled up Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete in a whirlwind campaign in Spring 1941. Only after German resources were sucked into the Russian campaign did the tide of war in the Mediterranean turn again. Malta held out, General Auchinleck held Rommel at Alam Halfa, and his successor Montgomery, massively reinforced, counter-attacked at El Alamein in October 1942 forcing Rommel to retreat. The Anglo-American invasion of French Algeria, 'Operation Torch' in November was a dress-rehearsal for D-Day, and boxed into Tunisia German forces surrendered in 1943. That July Sicily then Italy itself was invaded by the Allies, Mussoliuni's Fascist regime fell, and the end of the war was at last in sight.
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FIGHTING WITH POPSKI’S PRIVATE ARMY
Product Code: 11167
Captain Yunnie was the first recruit to Popski’s Private Army : the special unit founded in Cairo as the Eighth Army advanced towards Tripoli in 1943.They were dropped by glider into central Italy to form nomadic units sabotaging strategic targets. This is Yunnie’s personal account of the ‘small...
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EXIT ROMMEL
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The last days of Rommel’s North Africa campaign from EL Alamein to Medenine via the Kasserine Pass. Experience and tenacity were finally not enough to cope with overwhelming Allied strength and superiority.
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ROMMEL'S AFRIKA KORPS: EL AGHEILA TO EL ALAMEIN
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Of all the legendary forces of the Second World War, few rank higher than Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. This is their story as the rolled across LIbya into Egypt, carrying all before them - before they succumbed to superior numbers and Generalship.
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ROMMEL'S DESERT WAR: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AFRIKA KORPS
Product Code: 11532
In a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armoured thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis campaign climaxed in June with t...
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The Great Siege 1941-2
Product Code: 12320
A compelling new study of the longest siege in British military history. The dogged defence of the North African port of Tobruk was one of the war’s major turning points and this book tells the whole enthralling saga in full.
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ASSAULT ON SICILY
Monty and Patton at War
Product Code: 12222
This startling book shows how the feuds which bedevilled the Anglo-American High Command in 1944 had their origins in Operation Husky - the campaign to conquer Sicily, the year before. A study of rivalry and rampant egotism among Montgomery, Eisenhower, Patton and Alexander that could have crippl...
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