BRITAIN'S DESERT WAR IN EGYPY AND LIBYA: 1940-1942

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While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps and the iconic battle of El Alamein, the desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 was fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Covers British, German, and Italian forces, the commanders, and the weaponry. Also highlights the vital roles of the Royal Navy, disrupting enemy supplies, and the Royal Air Force, which eventually gained command of the air. Includes 32 black and white illustrations.