François de Lannoy - Afrikakorps, 1941/1943: The Libya-Egypt campaign

In March 1941, the leading elements of the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) landed in Libya to assist the Italian Army which had been pushed back by British forces to the Gulf of Sidra. For two years, DAK forces commanded by Rommel made vain attempts to crush the British & Allied divisions and reach the Nile. The vast hostile desert became the theatre of a fierce struggle, with tank battles, sieges and hurried retreats. This fighting gave rise to the myth of the Afrikakorps, carefully fed by the propaganda machine back in Germany, and most of all the legend of Rommel, the "hero of the sun" admired by his own men and his enemies alike. This book follows the history of the Afrikakorps (later, the Panzer-Armee Afrika) in Libya and Egypt, from March 1941 until the front was stabilised on the Mareth Line in Tunisia in February 1943.

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