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24-02-2008, 01:41 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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 | Hi Penderel, A few suggestions: The Battle for North Africa Author: Major-General Sir William Jackson Publisher: Mason/Charter Publishers Inc. Copyright: 1975, 500 pp. Although much of the book is about the 8th Army, the role that 1st Army played in achieving final victory is well covered. The NIH receives an honourable mention! The Path to Victory Author: Douglas Porch Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York Copyright: 2004, 799 pp. War Without Hate Authors: John Bierman & Colin Smith Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd., London Copyright: 2004, 478 pp. Reprint of 2002 edition entitled The Battle of Alamein Fighting the Desert Fox Author: John Delaney Publisher: Cassell & Co., London Copyright: 1998, 160 pp. A Noble Crusade Author: Richard Doherty Publisher: Sarpedon, Rockville Centre, New York Copyright: 1999, 368 pp. Kasserine Pass Author: Martin Blumenson Publisher: Cooper Square Press, New York Copyright: 2000, 341 pp. The Bloody Road to Tunis Author: David Rolf Publisher: Greenhill Books, London Copyright: 2001, 320 pp. An Army at Dawn Author: Rick Atkinson Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York Copyright: 2002, 681 pp. Brazen Chariots Author: Major Robert Crisp Publisher: Bantam War Books, New York Copyright: 1959, 233 pp. Stirling's Desert Raiders Author: Virginia Cowles Publisher: Bantam War Books, New York Copyright: 1958, 306 pp. The War in the Desert Author: Richard Collier and the Editors of Time-Life Books Publisher: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia. Copyright: 1977, pp.208 Well illustrated and, despite the title, covers the campaign in Tunisia. Cheers, Gerry |
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24-02-2008, 05:07 PM
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|  'The Foxes Of The Desert - The Story Of The Afrika Korps' by 'Paul Carell' ( Macdonald, 1960 and reprinted in paperback and by Schiffer since ). It is of course biased, but it gives some interesting first-hand accounts from the German combatants point-of-view. |
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24-02-2008, 05:37 PM
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| Tank Combat in North Africa, the opening rounds by Thomas L. Jentz (1998) With Pennants Flying, the immortal deeds of the Royal Armoured Corps by David Masters (1943) Tanks Across the Desert, the War Diary of Jake Wardrop ed. George Forty (1981,2003) Desert Rats at War by George Forty (1975, 1977) ...does anyone notice a theme developing?
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