Gazala 1942 Rommel's Greatest Victory

Name: Gazala 1942 Rommel's Greatest Victory
Price: 17.25 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781846032646

ISBN-10: 1846032644

ISBN-13: 9781846032646

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ken Ford, John White

List price: $21.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $17.25

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Gazala was Rommel's greatest victory. After a period of stalemate in the desert war, during which both the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps had rested and regrouped, he carried out a daring flanking movement around the strong Allied defensive position. The British command could not match Rommel's masterly co-ordination of armor, artillery and infantry, even when encircled in an area that became known as "the Cauldron", and his outstanding generalship and a timely break-through by his Italian troops enabled him to win a clear victory after 16 days of fierce fighting. However, although the strategically important town of Tobruk quickly fell, Gazala was actually a high-water mark and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 5/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry before a change in career led him to become a full time military historian. He is the author of over twenty books on various aspects of World War II. Ken now lives in Southampton.



Origins of the Battle


Chronology


Opposing Commanders


British commanders


Axis commanders


Opposing Armies


British forces


Axis forces


Orders of battle


Opposing Plans


British plans


Axis plans


The Gazala Campaign



Rommel attacks



The Cauldron



The failure of the British armour



The loss of Tobruk


Aftermath


Mersa Matruh


Retreat to El Alamein


The Battlefield Today


Further Reading and Bibliography


Index