Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign

by Anthony Tucker-Jones

The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. Compared with the heavily populated landscapes of northwest Europe, the empty open spaces of North Africa appeared to be ideal operating terrain for tanks, yet the harsh...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848845677
• ISBN13: 9781848845671
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.5"