NORTH AFRICA, 1941: Rommel's War Machine

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Explores the pivotal 1941 desert war in Libya, detailing the British and Axis forces' intense clashes. As 1941 dawned, the British were mopping up the last Italian strongholds in Libya after seven months of fighting. The British had captured hundreds of thousands of Italian soldiers, plus hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces and several thousand valuable trucks, and pushed the Italians out of Egypt and then across the coastline of Libya until they controlled only a small section of western Libya. Details Rommel's counterattack, and then how the British struggled to gain the upper hand until Tobruk. Contains 151 photos and 10 profiles.