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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 failure to break the British at Alam Halfa two months later was followed by defeat for the over-extended Afrika Korps by the greatly strengthened Eighth Army at El Alamein. In this important addition to the Campaign series' coverage of the North African desert war, regular contributor Ken Ford vividly portrays the "Desert Fox" at the height of his powers.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History

• Full title: Gazala 1942
• Author: Ken Ford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781846032646
• ISBN: 1846032644
• ID: 04275224
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 248 × 184 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2008

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