The Eighth Army in North Africa
A pictorial history of the British Eighth Army’s campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia during World War II.
 
The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons, and equipment of the army during campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. The battles the army fought in the Western Desert in 1941 and 1942 are the stuff of legend, as is the second Battle of El Alamein when, under Montgomery, it defeated the German and Italian forces commanded by Rommel.
 
With vivid insight into the fighting and the desert conditions, this book shows what a varied, multinational force the army was, for it brought together men from Britain and the British Empire and Commonwealth as well as Free French, Greeks, and Poles.
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The Eighth Army in North Africa
A pictorial history of the British Eighth Army’s campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia during World War II.
 
The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons, and equipment of the army during campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. The battles the army fought in the Western Desert in 1941 and 1942 are the stuff of legend, as is the second Battle of El Alamein when, under Montgomery, it defeated the German and Italian forces commanded by Rommel.
 
With vivid insight into the fighting and the desert conditions, this book shows what a varied, multinational force the army was, for it brought together men from Britain and the British Empire and Commonwealth as well as Free French, Greeks, and Poles.
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The Eighth Army in North Africa

The Eighth Army in North Africa

by Simon Forty
The Eighth Army in North Africa

The Eighth Army in North Africa

by Simon Forty

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A pictorial history of the British Eighth Army’s campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia during World War II.
 
The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons, and equipment of the army during campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. The battles the army fought in the Western Desert in 1941 and 1942 are the stuff of legend, as is the second Battle of El Alamein when, under Montgomery, it defeated the German and Italian forces commanded by Rommel.
 
With vivid insight into the fighting and the desert conditions, this book shows what a varied, multinational force the army was, for it brought together men from Britain and the British Empire and Commonwealth as well as Free French, Greeks, and Poles.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526723802
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date: 11/12/2020
Series: Images of War
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 305,708
File size: 173 MB
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About the Author

Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has been involved in publishing since the mid-1970s, first as editor and latterly as author. Son of author and RAC Tank Museum curator George Forty, he has continued in the family tradition writing mainly on historical and military subjects including books on the Napoleonic Wars and the two world wars. Recently he has produced a range of highly illustrated books on the Normandy battlefields, the Atlantic Wall and the liberation of the Low Countries with co-author Leo Marriott.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Chapter 1 Setting the Scene 11

Chapter 2 The Opposing Forces 19

Chapter 3 The Desert 57

Chapter 4 Operation 'Crusader' 76

Chapter 5 Rommel's Second Offensive 93

Chapter 6 Monty Takes Command 123

Chapter 7 First Victory 137

Further Reading 144

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