Download or read book Tobruk and El Alamein written by Barton Maughan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tobruk and El Alamein written by Barton Maughan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rommel s Afrika Korps written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Download or read book Tobruk to Tarakan written by John G. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most stirring book to arise from the Second World War. The most highly decorated unit of the Second A.I.F. was in action in so many campaigns that a great deal of the drama of the conflict as experienced by Australian soldiers is encompassed on one volume.
Download or read book Pendulum of War written by Niall Barr and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back toward 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 opening bombardment signaled the start of Eighth Army's own offensive, which destroyed the Axis threat to Egypt." "Explanations for the remarkable change in the fortunes of Britain's desert army 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 Eighth Army - Generals Auchinleck and Montgomery - and that of their legendary opponent, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, have often been allowed to obscure the true nature of the Alamein campaign." "This is also the story of how an army learned from its mistakes. For too long the change in personalities at the top has blurred the real continuity of experience that saw the Eighth Army transform itself from a tactically inept collection of units into a battle-winning army. Pendulum of War explores the Eighth Army's learning curve, and shows how lessons from bitter experience were used to develop improved tactical methods that eventually mastered the veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Rommel s Afrika Korps written by George Bradford and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of this famous World War II unit at the height of its success Completely illustrated with photos, maps, and diagrams--in color where available In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a brilliant and bold campaign against the British. Beginning at El Agheila in March 1941, the Afrika Korps--frequently outnumbered--drove the British steadily east across Libya and into Egypt. The German offensive eventually ground to a halt in a series of battles at El Alamein. In impressive detail, George Bradford depicts what it was like to serve and fight in the Afrika Korps, from its tanks and equipment to its battles and daily life.
Download or read book Middle East Affairs written by Zahos Hadjifotiou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahos Hadjifotiou is a Greek best-selling author who met success from his first book. He has written dozens of books, many of them translated into foreign languages. All his books are best sellers. The Middle East Affairs recounts Zahos' adventures in legendary events of WWII (siege of Tobruk, battles of El Alamein and Rimini), with all its tragedy and specific details, exactly as they were experienced by the writer. All stories are true and based on the author's experiences, not based on descriptions as are used by many war historian authors. At the same time, it is a vivid depiction of the cosmopolitan and aristocratic urban environments of Alexandria, Cairo, and Beirut during those turbulent years when death was highly probable and people tried to enjoy life to the fullest. Zahos Hadjifotiou is a remarkable and fearless individual who lived life to the fullest, fighting in battles as fiercely as he loved, partied, and enjoyed life. His adventures narrated in this book began in 1941 when 17-year-old Zahos decided to leave occupied Greece in order to fight the Germans in the Middle East. He joined the British Army and helped defend Tobruk against the Axis forces led by the legendary General Rommel during its eight-month siege. Having survived Tobruk, he spent a short amount of time in the cosmopolitan cities of Alexandria and Cairo, where he frequented the trendiest nightclubs and restaurants. He recounts his intense love affair with a gorgeous singer named Yuki, an affair that ended abruptly due to a misunderstanding concerning his military obligations that resulted in his arrest. Following his detention, he was transported to Palestine where he was set free. Meanwhile, Tobruk had fallen to Rommel; the Germans were advancing swiftly. Zahos spent the next ten months in the desert, starting with the decisive battle of El Alamein, and then marching a deliberation trek in the desert toward El Aghelia, near the border of Tunisia. The end of this journey found him in Beirut, Lebanon, which at the time was under the French mandate. There, he became a distinguished member of a notorious five gentlemen "rat pack." As the prospect of death in war was highly probable, the rat pack lived life to the fullest and engaged in a period of debauchery. Zahos ended up seducing Simone, the daughter of the all-powerful French governor of Syria and Lebanon, who caught them in the act. They finally got married despite her parents' justified objections (as for his part, the reason for the marriage was more of a flattered vanity rather than love). Quickly bored with the domestic life, Zahos escaped Simone and Lebanon at the first opportunity presented, which was the departure of his unit for Italy. Zahos spend eight months in Italy, mostly marching and fighting against the Germans (including the decisive battle of Rimini). After the German defeat, and as the trust between the Greek Army and the Italian people was gradually restored (at this time, the Italians had come to think of the Greek Army as its liberators from the Germans), he engaged again in an intense love affair with a signorina of astounding beauty, Gabriella. A series of colorful adventures, equally, were shared among military duty and dolce vita, followed. Zahos, finally, returned to Athens, Greece, with his unit in December 1944; he was tired after fighting abroad for such a long time. He had spent four years at war and always at the front. He received multiple decorations and medals for his courage on the battlefield. In 1946, he concluded his military service. After settling down in Athens and resuming his usual habits of working, partying, and establishing a new "rat pack," he was eventually located by his French wife, Simone, who moved in with him. As he and his friends were figuring out how to get rid of Simone, he finally encountered his love, Yuki, singing at a fashionable nightclub. The book ended with Zahos fleeing with Yuki to Italy where they spent the summer.
Download or read book Rommel s Afrika Korps written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 the entire 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.
Download or read book Middle East Affairs written by Zahos Hadjifotiou and published by Stergiou Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East Affairs recounts Zahos' adventures in legendary events of WWII (siege of Tobruk, battles of El Alamein and Rimini), with all its tragedy and specific details, exactly as they were experienced by the writer. All stories are true and based on the author’s experiences, not based on descriptions as are used by many war historian authors. At the same time, it is a vivid depiction of the cosmopolitan and aristocratic urban environments of Alexandria, Cairo, and Beirut during those turbulent years when death was highly probable and people tried to enjoy life to the fullest. His adventures narrated in this book began in 1941 when 17-year-old Zahos decided to leave occupied Greece in order to fight the Germans in the Middle East. He joined the British Army and helped defend Tobruk against the Axis forces led by the legendary General Rommel during its eight-month siege. Zahos Hadjifotiou is a remarkable and fearless individual who lived life to the fullest, fighting in battles as fiercely as he loved, partied, and enjoyed life. Zahos is a Greek best-selling author who met success from his first book. He has written dozens of books, many of them translated into foreign languages. All his books are best sellers.
Download or read book Australia in the War of 1939 1945 Vol III Tobruk and El Alamein written by Barton Maughan and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel.In March 1941, soon after its formation, the division was sent untrained and without its artillery to Cyrenaica as part of a garrison force which, within a few weeks, took the brunt of a surprise advance by Rommel's newly-arrived armoured force. Retreaing to Tobruk the division withstood, with the support of British armoured, artillery and machine-gun units, several assaults and a long siege, and maintained a threat on the flank of Rommel's long line of communications to the Egyptian frontier.Before the siege ended the division was withdrawn by sea but in the succeeding year it was recalled to the front as Rommel's forces were approaching the El Alamein defences, only 70 miles from Alexandria. In General Auchinleck's counter-offensive in July 1942 it captured the Tel el Eisa ridges and other important positions near the coast and later under General Montgomery took a leading part in Rommel's defeat in the battle of El Alamein.As well as recording the exploits of Australian soldiers, the book examines the actions of the generals who successively commanded the Middle East Forces and the Eighth Army - Wavell, Auchinleck, Cunningham, Ritchie, Alexander and Montgomery. The inter-governmental differences concerning the 9th Division's withdrawal from Tobruk and its later return to Australia are also related.An appendix recounts the experiences of Australian prisoners of war in Europe.
Download or read book The Battle of El Alamein written by Correlli Barnett and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1964 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the famous North African desert battle, between the German forces led by Rommel, the Desert Fox, and the British Eighth Army, which was pivotal to possession of important oil reserves.
Download or read book The Longest Siege written by Robert Lyman and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book Australia in the War of 1939 1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alamein written by Simon Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial battle. Based on an intensive reading of the contemporary sources, in particular the extensive and recently declassified British bugging of Axis prisoners of war, military historian Simon Ball turns Alamein on its head, explaining it as a cultural defeat for Britain. Alamein is a military history of the battle - showing how different it looks stripped of later cultural excrescences. But it also shows how 'Alamein culture' saturated the post-war world, when archival sources mingled with film, novels, magazines, popular histories, and the rest of Alamein's footprint. Whether you are interested in the battle itself or its cultural afterlife, if you have an opinion about Alamein, you'll question it after reading this book.
Download or read book The Battle for North Africa written by Glyn Harper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-researched and highly readable account of one of World War II’s most important ‘turning point’ battles.” —Jerry D. Morelock, Senior Editor at HistoryNet.com In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as “the end of the beginning.” Moving beyond a simple narrative of the conflict, The Battle for North Africa tackles critical themes, such as the problems of coalition warfare, the use of military intelligence, the role of celebrity generals, and the importance of an all-arms approach to modern warfare.
Download or read book The Last Man Standing written by Peter Dornan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where was the rest of the Company? Why was no one else firing? Herb turned to look, and before him saw the shocking truth. He was alone. No one was following . . . there was no one left to follow. He was the last man standing.'The Battle of El Alamein was one of the turning points of the Second World War. Churchill later reflected, 'It might be said that before El Alamein we never had a victory; after El Alamein we never had a defeat.'The Australian 9th Division played a major part in the victory at El Alamein and was given high praise from Montgomery, Churchill and even Rommel, who said, 'I could have won North Africa with a division of Australians under my command.' But victory came at a heavy price with the lives of 1177 Australians lost at El Alamein, almost as many as in Kokoda and Tobruk combined.Herb Ashby was wounded in the Siege of Tobruk and served in the Battle of El Alamein. With three Victoria Crosses awarded to his battalion during the campaign, including two to his platoon, Herb assisted his battalion to become the most highly decorated Australian battalion in the war.This is Herb's story of the Tobruk, El Alamein and war in the Western Desert.
Download or read book Tobruk 1941 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Spellmount Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siege of Tobruk lasted 240 days during which the 'gallant garrison' of Allied soldiers, including the famous 'Desert Rats' held out against constant attacks from Rommel's Afrika Korps. The battle became one of the longest sieges in British military history and a potent symbol of British resistance. To understand what happened and why - read Battle Story.- Diary extracts and quotes offer a real insight into what it was like for the Allied soldiers to live under siege- Maps highlight the adversities of the terrain and the strategic importance of the Tobruk fortress- Rare photographs place you on the frontline of the unfolding action- Orders of battle reveal the composition of the opposing forces' armies- Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this important battlePIER PAOLO BATTISTELLI earned his PhD in Military History at the University of Padua. A scholar of German and Italian politics and strategy of the Second World War, he has written extensively on the Western Desert Campaign. He has also written Battle Story: El Alamein 1942 for the series.
