Forgotten Voices: Desert Victory
'Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone's face was one mass of sand ... The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone' Bombardier Ray EllisHad the Allies lost in North Africa, Rommel's Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East, cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia and India, and taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Britain would have been isolated, without oil, and unable to fight.These historic battles of 1940-1943 were fought over vast distances on rugged terrain, with supply lines often stretched to breaking point. It was here that David Stirling formed the SAS to perform auda…
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Weitere Autoren: Imperial War Museum
- ISBN: 978-0-09-193858-1
- EAN: 9780091938581
- Produktnummer: 12270403
- Verlag: Ebury Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 383 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.0 cm 280 g
- Gewicht: 280
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Julian Thompson served in the Royal Marines for 34 years, retiring as Major General. He commanded 3 Commando Brigade, which carried out the initial landings in the Falklands conflict and fought most of the subsequent land battles. He is now Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London and is the author of Forgotten Voices of Burma and the critically acclaimed The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945.
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