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Pendulum of War
Niall Barr
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Description for Pendulum of War
paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8pp plates illustrations/5 integrated maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 418.
In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet just five months later, the famous bombardment opened the Eighth Army's own offensive which destroyed the Axis threat to Egypt. Explanations for the remarkable change of fortune have generally been sought in the abrasive personality of the new army commander Lieutenant-General Bernard Law Montgomery. But the long running controversies surrounding the commanders of ... Read more
In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet just five months later, the famous bombardment opened the Eighth Army's own offensive which destroyed the Axis threat to Egypt. Explanations for the remarkable change of fortune have generally been sought in the abrasive personality of the new army commander Lieutenant-General Bernard Law Montgomery. But the long running controversies surrounding the commanders of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712668279
SKU
9780712668279
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About Niall Barr
Dr Niall Barr is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. Educated at the University of St Andrews, he previously taught military history at Sandhurst. He has published widely on British military history and has conducted numerous battlefield tours, including three to El Alamein. He is married with ... Read more
Reviews for Pendulum of War
Excellent...a sophisticated, compelling and immensely readable account... Thoroughly researched, controversial, convincing... military history at its best
Daily Express
There is no doubting the author's immense scholarship... He has a first-class understanding of strategy and tactics
Simon Heffer
Literary Review
Deserves to become the standard work on the desert war in 1942
Richard Holmes
Daily Express
There is no doubting the author's immense scholarship... He has a first-class understanding of strategy and tactics
Simon Heffer
Literary Review
Deserves to become the standard work on the desert war in 1942
Richard Holmes