Battle of Bardia

by Stockings Craig and Craig Stockings

On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress village of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The ensuing battle was the second of the First Libyan Campaign, but the first battle of the Second World War planned and fought predominantly by Australians. The fortress fell to the attackers a little over two days after the attack began, in what could only be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0987057456
• ISBN13: 9780987057457
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.