THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of...

THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms

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North Africa: its dunes, the thirst, the suffocating heat, its endless tracks and its heroes. For if the Desert War, from 1941 to 1943, left its mark through the great tank battles that took place there and the special units that took part, one must not forget that this war was also a human story.

From the ordinary soldier stoically manning his anti-tank gun alone to the division commander issuing his orders, this book by Benoît Rondeau retraces the Desert War in 33 portraits, through the prism of feats of arms.

Following a chronological order, the author places each of them in context. Far from a parade of biographies seen many times before, the reader will grasp the particular nature of combat in the North African sand through genuine adventures, odysseys and feats of arms, in which the soldier is at the heart of the action. A living history, giving space to all the belligerents, to reclaim an operational theatre by discovering it from a fresh angle.


 

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Author 1
Benoit Rondeau
Publication date
October 2022
Pages
164
Illustrations
1 photo section + 8-page map insert
Cover
Paperback
Format
15 x 23 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Editions Caraktère
EAN
9782916403649

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