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Author: Peter Charles Smith
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBogen beskriver det engelske amfibieangreb på Tobruk i september 1942. Meningen var at prøve at sinke det tyske Afrikakorps i dets videre fremtrængen
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891417309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErwin 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: David Mitchelhill-Green
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750967983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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: Robert Lyman
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780330510813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 Jefferson
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780709092988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1849087245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated 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: Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-01-20
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1472800419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 857
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1139496026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitary 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: Robert Forczyk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-06-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1780964420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly illustrated account of the battle for the Demyansk Pocket on the Eastern Front in World War II. The fighting around the town of Demyansk was one of the longest encirclement battles on the Eastern Front during World War II, stretching from February 1942 to February 1943. Originally, the German 16. Armee occupied Demyansk in the autumn of 1941 because it was key terrain that would be used as a springboard for an eventual offensive into the Valdai Hills. Instead, the Soviet winter counteroffensive in February 1942 encircled the German II Armeekorps and other units, inside the Demyansk Pocket. Yet despite severe pounding from five Soviet armies, the embattled German troops held the pocket and the Luftwaffe organized a major aerial resupply effort to sustain the defenders. For the first time in military history, an army was supplied entirely by air. In February 1943, Marshal Timoshenko was ordered to launch an offensive to cut off the base of the salient and annihilate the 12 divisions. At the same time, Hitler finally came to his senses after the Stalingrad debacle and authorized the 16. Armee to withdraw from the pocket. This volume will conclude with the drama of a German Army-sized withdrawal under fire in winter, under attack from three sides.
