A new addition to the very popular Images of War series, covering the British Eighth Army in North Africa. The North African Campaigns were war of movement as armour travelled fast in advance, only to run short of supplies and be forced into retreat. – Highly Recommended
NAME: Images of War, The Eighth Army In North Africa, Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives FILE: R2858 AUTHOR: Simon Forty PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword BINDING: soft back PAGES: 144 PRICE: £14.99 GENRE: Non Fiction SUBJECT: World War 2, World War II, WWII, Second World War, North Africa, Eighth Army, Afrika Korps, Italian Army, Mediterranean, armour, weapons race, air power, supply convoys, lines of communication
ISBN: 1-52672-379-4
IMAGE: B2858.jpg BUYNOW: tinyurl.com/yxc59ve2 LINKS: DESCRIPTION: A new addition to the very popular Images of War series, covering the British Eighth Army in North Africa. The North African Campaigns were war of movement as armour travelled fast in advance, only to run short of supplies and be forced into retreat. – Highly Recommended The terrain along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa provided a narrow strip of roads between Algeria and Egypt. The prize for the Germans was the Suez Canal. They had to advance fast enough to reach that target to win. For the Allies, British forces had to advance across into Algeria in a pincer movement with troops landing to West, capturing the German and Italian forces. Critical to the process for the Allies was for the Eight Army to halt the Germans and then chase them back up the coast. This book provides a vivid insight into the British Eight Army in action as it defeated the Germans and Italians. In many respects desert warfare was more like naval warfare as armour fought armour in the vast open areas of the desert, where the desert was as much the enemy for both sides as their own conflict. This produced a very different relationship between combatants than was experienced in other theatres of war.