The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II

by Glyn Harper

In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253031427
• ISBN13: 9780253031426
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher