Alamein

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010161
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alamein written by Jon Latimer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It also changed the way the British Army fought, using concentrated artillery on a scale not seen since 1918 to break through Axis defences built in depth."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Glyn Harper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253031435
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for North Africa written by Glyn Harper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-researched and highly readable account of one of World War II’s most important ‘turning point’ battles.” —Jerry D. Morelock, Senior Editor at HistoryNet.com In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as “the end of the beginning.” Moving beyond a simple narrative of the conflict, The Battle for North Africa tackles critical themes, such as the problems of coalition warfare, the use of military intelligence, the role of celebrity generals, and the importance of an all-arms approach to modern warfare.

Author : Stephen Bungay
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1781311609
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alamein written by Stephen Bungay and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in October, after 12 days of attritional tank battle and artillery bombardment, Montgomery's Eighth Army, with Australians and New Zealanders playing crucial roles in a genuinely international Allied fighting force, broke through the German and Italian lines at El Alamein. It was a turning-point in the war after which, in Churchill's words, "we never had a defeat". Stephen Bungay's book is as much at home analysing the crucial logistics of keeping desert armies supplied with petrol and tank parts as it is reappraising the combat strategies of Montgomery and Rommel, and ranges widely from the domestic political pressures on Churchill to the aerial siege of Malta, key to the control of the Mediterranean. And in a chapter on "The Soldier's War", Bungay graphically evokes the phantasmagoric blur of thunderous cannonade and tormenting heat that was the lot of the individual men who actually fought and died in the desert.

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526700816
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Alamein 1942 written by Richard Doherty and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommels Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political implications for the Allies. That this never happened is, of course, well known but, as this highly readable yet authoritative work reveals, there were moments of extreme peril and anxiety.Churchills bold, nay desperate, decisions concerning key appointments, Montgomerys stubborn refusal to be rushed, Rommels chronic logistic problems and critical air superiority are all examined in expert detail. The authors description of the actual fighting is brought to life by personal accounts as well as his complete grasp of the plan and tactics involved.The result, seventy-five years on, is a delightfully fresh and fascinating account of one of the iconic battles, not just of the War but in military history.

Author : Bryn Hammond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780964536
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Alamein written by Bryn Hammond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Alamein, Britain's victory in the deserts of North Africa in 1942, was the first major reversal of fortunes for Hitler's Third Reich. Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline and provides fascinating details of how the war was actually fought. It also includes analysis of the strategic decisions made by the generals. El Alamein is the story of exactly how a seemingly beaten and demoralized army turned near-defeat into victory in a little over four months of protracted and bloody fighting in the harsh North African desert.

Author : Jonathan Dimbleby
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654673
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny in the Desert written by Jonathan Dimbleby and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the significance of this episode remains unrecognised. In this thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle, charting the nail-biting months that led to the victory at El Alamein in November 1942. It is a story of high drama, played out both in the war capitals of London, Washington, Berlin, Rome and Moscow, and at the front in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morrocco and Algeria and in the command posts and foxholes in the desert. Destiny in the Desert is about politicians and generals, diplomats, civil servants and soldiers. It is about forceful characters and the tensions and rivalries between them. Drawing on official records and the personal insights of those involved at every level, Dimbleby creates a vivid portrait of a struggle which for Churchill marked the turn of the tide - and which for the soldiers on the ground involved fighting and dying in a foreign land. Now available in paperback in time, Destiny in the Desert, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman prize 2012-13, is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Desert War.

Author : Fred Majdalany
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218503
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of El Alamein written by Fred Majdalany and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Majdalany recounts the battle with the clarity of full comprehension."--

Author : Michael Carver
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840222203
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Alamein written by Michael Carver and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1962 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert War; Ørkenkrigsførelse; Cairo; Alam el Halfa; Stumme; Kidney Ridge; Allierede Styrker; Bir Khalda; 10th Armoured Divisions; New Zealand Division; 9th Australian Division; 7th Armoured Division; 10th Corps; 24 Australian Brigade; 8th Armoured Brigade; 21st Panzer Division; Galal; Fuka; Tel el Aqqaqir; Briggs, R.; Currie, J.; Lumsden, H.; Harding, A.F.; Freyberg, B.C.

Author : Simon Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191504637
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alamein written by Simon Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial battle. Based on an intensive reading of the contemporary sources, in particular the extensive and recently declassified British bugging of Axis prisoners of war, military historian Simon Ball turns Alamein on its head, explaining it as a cultural defeat for Britain. Alamein is a military history of the battle - showing how different it looks stripped of later cultural excrescences. But it also shows how 'Alamein culture' saturated the post-war world, when archival sources mingled with film, novels, magazines, popular histories, and the rest of Alamein's footprint. Whether you are interested in the battle itself or its cultural afterlife, if you have an opinion about Alamein, you'll question it after reading this book.

Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459734122
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Alamein 1942 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most important battles of the Second World War between two of its greatest generals is expertly related and explained by a leading historian, with detailed illustrations and supplementary facts.