Fighting the Desert Fox: Rommel'

230 b/w illustrations! One of World War Two's greatest generals took on Britain's most powerful forces in one of the world's severest terrains. Historian Delaney, armed with new information only recently seen in the West, provides a fresh, concise, and authoritative account of the dramatic desert campaign. Lavishly illustrated with 230 photos from London's Imperial War Museum, the riveting narrative covers the darkest hours of Allied fortunes in North Africa. It offers an astute analysis of British and German generalship, and highlights the massive logistics problems of desert warfare. The fateful battle for Tobruk and the advance to El Alamein receive day-by-day, blow-by-blow accounts of a time and place where quick thinking and surprise action mattered more than deliberate plan and careful calculation. Trim size: 8 1/2 x 10 3/4.