The War In North Africa 1940 1943

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Penguin Paperbacks
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054431443

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Desert War by Alan Moorehead Pdf

"North Africa was the site of some of the most volatile battles of World War II. For journalist Alan Moorehead, it was war in its purest form, "a knight's tournament in empty space."" "In Desert War, which includes the complete texts of The Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle, and The End of Africa, Moorehead writes about what he saw. He recounts with dazzling prose and intimate detail the heroes and legends, the soldiers and prisoners, the military strategies, the strengths and weaknesses of those involved, and portraits of generals Rommel, Montgomery, and Patton. Woven throughout are observations on the landscape, the Mediterranean shores and the vast desert, which inevitably played a role in shaping the battles. For Moorehead, "desert warfare resembled war at sea. Men moved by compass. No position was static. Each truck or tank was as individual as a destroyer."" "Written by a man who lived and breathed the conflict in North Africa during World War II, Desert War is a eyewitness account and an inspired piece of writing by a master of his craft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Colin F. Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313388088

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The War in North Africa, 1940-1943 by Colin F. Baxter Pdf

Few of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943. Figures such as Rommel, Montgomery, and Eisenhower would become world famous because of the fighting in North Africa. This book opens with seven historiographical essays that evaluate and critically assess the major contributions to the literature on the War in North Africa. It then includes an alphabetically arranged bibliography of the 504 entries cited in the essays. The material is easily accessible, with cross-references between the text and the bibliography and a full index. The volume includes chapters on the Desert War, 1940-42; the Axis Powers in North Africa; Montgomery, Alam Halfa and El Alamein; TORCH: the Landings in French North Africa, and the Tunisian Campaign. Full attention is given to questions and issues historians have raised on such controversies as the Auchinleck-Montgomery dispute, the debate over Operation TORCH, and the Darlan affair. Emphasis is on English-language works, but the most significant Italian, German, and French works are cited and assessed. The book has been written for use in public, college, university, and institutional libraries, and to serve general readers and military historians.

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023136945

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The Desert War by Alan Moorehead Pdf

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1781316732

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The Desert War by Alan Moorehead Pdf

Alan Moorehead was a peerless war correspondent who covered the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943. The trilogy of books he wrote on the prolonged battles between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Corps immediately drew universal acclaim, and remains and epic account as extraordinary now as it was then. This reissue of Alan Moorehead's classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-1943 will coinide with the 75th anniversary of the Battles for El Alamein in July and October 1942.

Author : Claudio Antonucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9623611307

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6521 by Claudio Antonucci Pdf

Author : Alexander G. Clifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258928256

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The Conquest of North Africa, 1940-1943 by Alexander G. Clifford Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 030435497X

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African Trilogy by Alan Moorehead Pdf

The reputation of Alan Moorehead as the greatest war correspondent of WWII'The very best book written by a war correspondent in this war' - The Times Literary Supplement. 'A classic ... Moorehead is more than a first-calss reporter. He is an artist ... Some of the battle scenes stand comparison with the famous battle descriptions of Stendhal and Tolstoy.' - The Observer

Author : Martyn Thompson
Publisher : Penguin Group (New Zealand)
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060647677

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Our War by Martyn Thompson Pdf

This is the story of war as told by the men who fought it. Based on over eighty interviews with New Zealand veterans of the 1940-1943 North African and Middle East campaigns, these personal memoirs build to a vivid, sometimes visceral, portrait of men at war - the fear, the boredom, the adventure, the humour, the pain, the comradeship, the bravery, the everyday realities of the ordinary soldier. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which gives a chronological view of the campaigns; the second of which is titled Reflections and allows the voices of these ordinary heroes to describe the realities of life in the desert, combat, being wounded, and making and losing friends. The result is a lasting reminder to those who follow of just what sacrifice really meant.

Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080711810

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Desert War in North Africa by Stephen W. Sears Pdf

THE STORY OF THAT SEESAW WAR FROM SEPTEMBER, 1940, WHEN THE ITALIAN ARMY INVADED EGYPT UNTIL MAY 1943 WHEN THE COMBINED BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES DROVE THE AXIS DESERT ARMY INTO TUNISIA AND FORCED ITS SURRENDER. THE BOOK CONTAINS 114 ILLUSTRATIONS.

Author : Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010383514

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The Battle for North Africa, 1940-43 by Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson Pdf

The history of the North African Campaign is the story of an army forging itself into a superb fighting force from the debris of defeat and discouragement

Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Operation Torch, 1942
ISBN : OCLC:1152919320

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An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson Pdf

Author : Aomar Boum,Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1503611515

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Wartime North Africa by Aomar Boum,Sarah Abrevaya Stein Pdf

This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved--Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentation and political outrage. At others, they are humble, yearning for medicine, a cigarette, or a pair of shoes. Translated from French, Arabic, North African Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Moroccan Darija, Tamazight (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or transcribed from their original English, these writings shed light on how war, occupation, race laws, internment, and Vichy French, Italian fascist, and German Nazi rule were experienced day by day across North Africa. Though some selections are drawn from published books, including memoirs, diaries, and collections of poetry, most have never been published before, nor previously translated into English. These human experiences, combined, make up the history of wartime North Africa.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521509718

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Rommel's Desert War by Martin Kitchen Pdf

At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941-3, Rommel's generalship, and the campaign's place within the broader strategic context of the war. He shows that the British were initially helpless against the operational brilliance of Rommel's Panzer divisions. However Rommel's initial successes and refusal to follow orders committed the Axis to a campaign well beyond their means. Without the reinforcements or supplies he needed to deliver a knockout blow, Rommel was forced onto the defensive and Hitler's Mediterranean strategy began to unravel. The result was the loss of an entire army which together with defeat at Stalingrad signalled a decisive shift in the course of the war.

Author : John W. Gordon
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019572729

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The Other Desert War by John W. Gordon Pdf

Gordon's book reveals an impressive mastery of the archival and secondary sources available on the subject. His writing is crisp and interesting, yet sober and scholarly at the same time. The daring and resourceful men of the British desert forces have found a historian whose ability to tell their story matches their ability to create some of the most daring and imaginative operations of World War II. This is an extraordinary book about extraordinary soldiers. Military Review

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015036726720

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The March to Tunis by Alan Moorehead Pdf