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Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the ...
During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended ...
For 1,000 days the Allied and Axis armies fought for the domination of the North African shores knowing that defeat would bring disastrous consequences ...
Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The eight-month long 1941 siege ...
As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the ...
The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the ...
Eighth Army was formed in Egypt in September 1941. A year later, under Montgomery, it defeated Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika at El Alamein which led ...
From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of the critical campaign that became a ...
An explanation of why things went wrong for the Eighth Army for so long, despite the best efforts of brave and determined men. A riveting ...
On 28th October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of ...
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After ...
Battle for Crete is a fine account of the political and military prelude to the evacuation of British, Australian and New Zealand forces from Greece ...
First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged by German and Italian forces in April 1941 ...