Description From Sidi Bou Zid to El Guettar, this fully illustrated study pits the US Army against the best that the Axis forces in Africa had to offer.
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He\'s had a life-long passion for illustration, and since 1985 has worked as a professional artist, illustrating over 30 books for Osprey.
Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art college in Cornwall.
He lives in Hampshire, UK.
He has a broad range of interests in literature and history, including the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic era, naval warfare, and the genesis of the "Military Revolution".
About the Author David Campbell has worked as a freelance new media producer and content specialist for many years, including roles at IBM, the BBC, various internet consultancies, and the civil service.
The German doctrine of mechanized warfare had proved itself time and again, but ever-growing logistical and supply problems were blunting its effectiveness.
The Afrikakorps was seasoned by years of fighting against increasingly powerful British and Commonwealth forces, and was led by one of the Reich\'s most capable generals.
Despite such failings the US GIs and their commanders learned very quickly, adapting to German tactics and the realities of mechanized warfare.
Organization suffered from a surfeit of peacetime theories and training was insufficient and ill-applied.
The Axis forces in North Africa were powerfully well armored and equipped, but fresh to war, and it showed.
Operation Torch , launched on November 8, 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel\'s German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant pincer.
Description From Sidi Bou Zid to El Guettar, this fully illustrated study pits the US Army against the best that the Axis forces in Africa had to offer
