El Alamein and the struggle for North Africa : : international perspectives from the twenty-first century / / edited by Jill Edwards.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cairo : : The American University in Cairo Press,, [2012] 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / William Roger Louis
- Introduction / Jill Edwards
- 1. The war in North Africa, 1940-43: an overview of the role of the Union of South Africa / James Jacobs
- 2. Training the troops: the Indian army in Egypt, Eritrea, and Libya, 1940-1942 / Alan Jeffreys
- 3. "The part we played in this show": Australians and El Alamein / Peter Stanley
- 4. "No model campaign": the Second New Zealand Division and the battle of El Alamein, October-December 1942 / Glyn Harper
- 5. The Free French in the battle for North Africa, 1942: military action and its political presentation / Remy Porte
- 6. Between history and geography: the El Alamein Project: research, findings, and results / Aldino Bondesan
- 7. Silent service: the Royal Navy and the desert victory / Nick Hewitt
- 8. Feeding the fortress: Malta, summer 1942 / Thomas Scheben
- 9. "The highest rule": Rommel as military genius / Antulio J. Echevarria II
- 10. High command in the desert / Niall Barr
- 11. Alexandrians tell their story: oral narratives of the war in North Africa, 1940-43 / Mohamed Awad and Sahar Hamouda
- 12. The battle of El Alamein: impressions of a young schoolboy in Alexandria / Harry Tzalas
- "Here dead lie we" / A.E. Housman.