FROM TOBRUK TO TUNIS: The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943

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Focuses on how the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia affected WWII British operations. Analyzes the terrain from the operational and tactical perspective and argues that the landscape features heavily influenced British operations and should now be considered alongside other standard military factors. Concentrates on the need of British operations to capture and hold key features across each successive battlefield.

A secondary theme of the work argues that British forces began to improvise certain tactical doctrines, which altered the early practice of combined arms assaults into one of the Infantry and Armoured formations fighting largely separated battles until the autumn of 1942. Includes 24 pages of color maps.