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With Rommel in the Desert: Tripoli to el Alamein
David Mitchelhill-Green
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Description for With Rommel in the Desert: Tripoli to el Alamein
Paperback. With Rommel in the Desert features 450 captioned images together with a carefully researched introduction. The majority of photographs used in this book are unpublished snapshots taken by ordinary German combatants serving in North Africa Num Pages: 208 pages, 250 images. BIC Classification: HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473878754
SKU
V9781473878754
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About David Mitchelhill-Green
Over the last twenty-five years, David Mitchelhill-Green has roamed the world in search of lost stories from the Second World War. His photographic investigations have featured in the British military magazine After the Battle. With a Masters degree in Military History, Davids extensive knowledge of the war has also appeared in numerous newspaper features and encyclopedia entries. Years spent in ... Read more
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