The war in the desert gave Britain her first significant victory in World War II when Wavell's late-1940 offensive rolled back the Italians from the borders of Egypt as far as Bengazi and beyond. However this led on to German intervention and the arrival, in 1941, of Rommel and his Afrika Korps and the stage was set for two years of thrust and counter-thrust as British and Commonwealth forces fought the Axis along the North African littoral. This illustrated volume analyzes this period of fighting in depth. It tells the story of the Afrika Korps and the Desert Rats, of the ebb and flow of the desert war. It includes hundreds of photographs, extensive battle maps, together with detailed plan views and specifications of equipment.
- ISBN10 0304357138
- ISBN13 9780304357130
- Publish Date 11 April 2002
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Military
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English