Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0811740331
Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II. One of the most famous military units of all time under one of the best commanders. The early campaigns in the Western Desert, Tobruk, El Alamein, and more.
Author : George Bradford
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1461751578
Portrait of this famous World War II unit at the height of its success Completely illustrated with photos, maps, and diagrams--in color where available In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a brilliant and bold campaign against the British. Beginning at El Agheila in March 1941, the Afrika Korps--frequently outnumbered--drove the British steadily east across Libya and into Egypt. The German offensive eventually ground to a halt in a series of battles at El Alamein. In impressive detail, George Bradford depicts what it was like to serve and fight in the Afrika Korps, from its tanks and equipment to its battles and daily life.
Author : Robin Lewin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 085052931X
Afrika Korps is an illustrated record of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel and his desert troops that fought in North Africa against British and Commonwealth forces between 1941 and 1943. Using previously rare and unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the desert campaign, it presents a unique visual account of the famous Afrika-Korps' operations and equipment. Thanks to an informative caption with every photograph Afrika Korps vividly portrays how the German Army fought across the uncharted and forbidding desert wilderness of North Africa. Throughout the book it examines how Rommel and his Afrika Korps were so successful and includes an analysis of desert war tactics which Rommel himself had indoctrinated. These tactics quickly won the Afrika-Korps a string of victories between 1941 and 1942. The photographs that accompany the book are a fascinating collection that depicts life in the Afrika-Korps, as seen through the lens of the ordinary soldier.
Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780969821
The campaign in North Africa between September 1940 and May 1943 holds not only an enduring fascination for postwar generations; but also a perhaps unique degree of nostalgia for some surviving participants. The campaign was no less costly in terms of human lives and material than many others; but regret at the cost is accompanied by positive memories in the minds of many veterans. This is not to suggest that the dead have been forgotten; but an almost mystical bond nevertheless exists, even between former enemies, amongst veterans of the desert campaign. Gordon Williamson examines the history, organisation and uniforms of Rommel's Afrikakorps.
Author : Alan Savage
Publisher : Magna Large Print Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Large print books
ISBN : 9780750515283
Cairo, June 1942. Tobruk has fallen and the British are desperate -- the only way to win the war in North Africa is to eliminate the Afrika Korps commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. However, one commando raid has already failed disastrously and Rommel is now at the Egyptian frontier. Can vital information be passed through to the new British commander, General Montgomery, in time to prepare the final desert onslaught -- the battle at El Alamein...?
Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1844156834
Afrika Korps is an illustrated record of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel and his desert troops that fought in North Africa against British and Commonwealth forces between 1941 and 1943. Using previously rare and unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the desert campaign, it presents a unique visual account of the famous Afrika-KorpsÍ operations and equipment. Thanks to an informative caption with every photograph Afrika Korps vividly portrays how the German Army fought across the uncharted and forbidding desert wilderness of North Africa. Throughout the book it examines how Rommel and his Afrika Korps were so successful and includes an analysis of desert war tactics which Rommel himself had indoctrinated. These tactics quickly won the Afrika-Korps a string of victories between 1941 and 1942. The photographs that accompany the book are a fascinating collection that depicts life in the Afrika-Korps, as seen through the lens of the ordinary soldier.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811734134
The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters In a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal's baton. By fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the 2 battles of El Alamein, the Afrika Korps teetered on the brink of defeat, which would come in Tunisia 6 months later.
Author : Kenneth Macksey
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780356025445
Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472800419
In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert.
Author : Desmond Young
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447484819
This book contains the story of Rommel, the famous German Field Marshal of World War II, commonly known as Desert Fox. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
