The Crucible of War: Auchinleck's Command: The Definitive History of the Desert War - Volume 2

Pitt, Barrie

ISBN 10: 0304359513 / ISBN 13: 9780304359516

Editore: Cassell, 2001

Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Likely never read. Codice articolo 193825

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In the second volume, Churchill replaces Sir Claude Auchinleck as commander-in-chief with Field Marshal Harold Alexander, and places Bernard Montgomery over the Eighth Army. Prior to the changes of command, Auchinleck stopped Rommel's Afrika Korps for the first time at the first battle of Alamein in July, 1942. Still, the Axis forces remained dangerous. The pair's new commands coincided with the arrival of matériel sufficient to give the Allies overwhelming superiority in the field. Montgomery duly planned for a second battle at Alamein six months after the first. The eventual encounter gained a decisive second desert victory, the first since O'Connor's against the Italians nearly two years before. The victory signaled the beginning of the end of the Axis in North Africa. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8. 26 B&W Illustrations

Informazioni sull?autore: Barrie Pitt saw active service in both Europe and the Middle East. He edited the partwork History of the Second World War and was Editor-in-Chief of Ballantine's Iluustrated History of World War II. Barrie Pitt now lives in Taunton in Somerset.

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Titolo: The Crucible of War: Auchinleck's Command: ...
Casa editrice: Cassell
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good