The Desert War

The war in the desert gave Britain her first significant victory in World War II when Wavell's late-1940 offensive rolled back the Italians from the borders of Egypt as far as Bengazi and beyond. However this led on to German intervention and the arrival, in 1941, of Rommel and his Afrika Korps and the stage was set for two years of thrust and counter-thrust as British and Commonwealth forces fought the Axis along the North African littoral. This illustrated volume analyzes this period of fighting in depth. It tells the story of the Afrika Korps and the Desert Rats, of the ebb and flow of the desert war. It includes hundreds of photographs, extensive battle maps, together with detailed plan views and specifications of equipment.