David Mitchelhill-Green

Tobruk 1942

Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies

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Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiership. It revived the flagging hopes of the German people and fanned the flames of Arab unrest. Furthering Rommel's ascendency and souring relations within the British Commonwealth, it marked a turning point in Anglo-American relations and the fight against the Third Reich.Utilising a wealth of primary and secondary sources Tobruk 1942 examines why the fortress fell to Rommel's Axis forces in just 24 hours when it held out against repeated attacks the previous… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7509-6960-4
EAN: 9780750969604
Produktnummer: 20608902
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'777 KB

Über den Autor

For the past twenty-five years DAVID MITCHELHILL-GREEN has travelled the globe documenting former Second World War battlefields for newspaper and magazine feature articles. Research for a Master of Arts in history at Monash University, Melbourne, formed the basis of this book. His other books include Fighting in Ukraine: A Photographer at War, and two forthcoming pictorials: With Rommel in the Desert and Rommel in North Africa. A keen photographer, his photos featured in Castles of the Samurai: Power and Beauty.