AFRIKAKORPS 1941-1943: The Libya - Egypt Campaign (English and French Edition)

French-English Edition - VERY GOOD, no marks Light wear on cover with bumped corners. Binding is tight and square. 432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. . . . . . . . Germany's Afrikakorps of World War II became one of the all-time greatest military legends. With German offensives stalled on other fronts, Third Reich photographers gave maximum coverage to the Afrikakorps and its charismatic commander, Erwin Rommel. In this remarkable work, hundreds of photographs, many previously unpublished, cover every aspect of the men, equipment, and campaigns of the desert army from the beginning in Libya in 1941 to the bitter end in Tunisia in 1943. . . . . . . TABLEOF CONTENTS: * INTRODUCTION -- 1.) The theater of operations, Libya ---- 2.) The Italian offensive and the British riposte (September 1940-February 1941) ---- 3.) The arrival of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (DAK) and Rommels first offensive (February-June 1941) ---- 4.) The British counter-offensive: Operation *Crusader* (November 1941-January 1942) ---- 5.) Rommels second offensive (21 January-20 July 1942) ---- 6.) Montgomery's counter-offensive (22 October 1942-31 January 1943) ---- * CONCLUSION ------- * APPENDICES: A.) Personal album of DAK Adjutant Major Schraepler ---- B.) Luftwaffe units engaged in North Africa (March 1941-January 1943) ---- C.) Main commanders of Panzer-Armee *Afrika* (February 1941-January 1943) ---- D.) Panzer-Armee "Afrika" Knights of the Iron Cross (March 1941-January 1943) ------- * BIBLIOGRAPHY ---- * The Afrikakorps in color

Product Info

ISBN: 2840481529

ISBN-13: 9782840481522

Publisher: Heimdal, Bayeux [France]

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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