| Author | : Samuel W. Mitcham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780891417309 |
Erwin Rommel's distinction of being an admired Nazi is owed in part to his brilliance as an old-fashioned soldier and in part to his turning against Hitler late in the war.
| Author | : Robert Lyman |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780330510813 |
The siege of Tobruk was a pivotal battle which influenced the outcome of the Second World War. In this book Robert Lyman describes the 'David versus Goliath' confrontation that ensued when Allied forces took on Rommel's Panzer divisions in the Libyan port.
| Author | : David Mitchelhill-Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Libya |
| ISBN | : 9780750967983 |
For a period during World War II, the isolated Libyan fortress of Tobruk captured the world s attention. Why did the Allied defenders of Tobruk successfully hold out against Rommel for 9 months in 1941, when they fell to Axis forces in just 24 hours the following year? Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories and one of the worst Allied defeats of World War II. This book presents a new perspective on Tobruk, utilizing a wealth of primary and secondary references and comparing the 1941 and 1942 battles."
| Author | : David Jefferson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780709092988 |
The disastrous raid on Tobruk, the ill-fated Operation Agreement, took place in September 1942. The purpose? To cut off Field-Marshal Rommel’s supply line prior to the Battle of El Alamein, which would be crucial in determining the success or failure of the North African campaign.Operation Agreement involved the army, navy and air force together with the Long Range Desert Group and the Special Interrogation Group, who were fluent German speakers who donned Nazi uniforms to carry out risky missions behind enemy lines. For many years, little would be known about the Tobruk raid. One survivor, seconded to the Commandos for the raid, was told in no uncertain terms to keep his mouth shut when returning to his unit. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished interviews with veterans, Tobruk: A Raid Too Far explores the operation in-depth, highlighting appalling errors of judgement and their tragic consequences, as well as the astonishing trek of survivors across the desert to reach their front lines.
| Author | : Ken Ford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1849087245 |
Illustrated by contemporary photos and specially commissioned maps, this book is a fascinating account of Rommel's greatest victory. Following a lull in the desert war which saw the Germans and British reinforce their armies, Rommel suddenly attacked British fortifications with an assault on the northern sector of the British line near Gazala. Pinning down the British in the north and outflanking the 1st Free French Brigade, Rommel succeeded in encircling the main British positions, trapping them in what became known as 'The Cauldron'. With thousands of British soldiers killed or taken prisoner, this was a devastating defeat for the Allies. Accompanied by contemporary photographs and maps depicting the movement of both armies, Ken Ford provides a masterful study of Rommel, the 'Desert Fox', at the height of his powers as he swept the British army back to the site of their final stand at El Alamein.
| Author | : Peter C. Smith |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2008-04-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0811751635 |
Minute-by-minute account of the offensive. Covers both the British attackers and the German defenders. Explains how and why the assault failed so badly.
| Author | : Jonathan Fennell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2011-02-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139496026 |
Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that 'the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale'. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army's performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942.
| Author | : Pier Paolo Battistelli |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2013-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472800419 |
In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert.
| Author | : Barton Maughan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 857 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942 |
| ISBN | : |
