Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign - Tucker-Jones Anthony
Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign - Tucker-Jones Anthony The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940…
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Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign - Tucker-Jones Anthony
The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. The use of armor during the entire course of the campaign is covered, from the initial Italian offensive, the arrival of Rommel's Panzergruppe Afrika, the battles fought along the North African shore which culminated in El Alamein, then the Allied advance into Tunisia which led to the final Compared with the heavily populated landscapes of northwest Europe, the empty open spaces of North Africa appeared to be ideal operating terrain for tanks, yet the harsh desert conditions tested men and machinery to the limit, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this remarkable selection of wartime photographs.