Author(s): Robert Forczyk

Military History

Between 1940 and 1943, British, Commonwealth, and - from 1941 - US troops saw constant combat against Axis forces across Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia. Although small in scale compared with the fighting on the Eastern Front, the North African theatre was in some respects the most technically advanced of the Second World War, involving manoeuvres in which armoured operations were of the utmost importance. In this, the second volume of a two-part study, best-selling author Robert Forczyk explores the course of armoured warfare in the latter stages of the War in the Desert. He tells the story from the Gazala offensive in May 1942, through the pivotal battles of El Alamein, to the final Allied victory in Tunisia. He also examines the armoured forces, equipment, doctrine, training, logistics and operations employed by both Allied and Axis forces throughout the period, focusing especially on the and regimental levels. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, profile artworks and maps, and featuring tactical-level vignettes and appendices analysing tank data, tank deliveries in-theatre, and orders of battle, this book goes back to the sources to provide a new study of armoured warfare in the desert.