North African Campaign - Operation Torch, Long Range Desert Group, Tunisia Campaign, Operation Crusader, Western Desert Campaign, Operation Bre (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Operation Torch, Long Range Desert Group, Tunisia Campaign, Operation Crusader, Western Desert Campaign, Operation Brevity, Italian invasion of Egypt, Battle of Alam el Halfa, Middle East Command, Battle of Port Lyautey, Eric Lloyd Williams, North African Campaign timeline, List of North African Campaign battles, Sedjenane, Operation Brevity order of battle, Panzer Army Africa, Bardia raid, Operation Flipper, Fliegerfuhrer Afrika, Hamish Henderson, Point 175, Operation Flagpole, Battle of Alam el Halfa order of battle, Operation Skorpion, Tunisian Victory, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943, Operation Blackstone, Fedhala Roads, Operation Gymnast. Excerpt: The Tunisia Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces. The Allies consisted of British Imperial Forces, including Polish and Greek contingents, with American and French corps. The battle opened with initial success by the German and Italian forces, but the massive supply and numerical superiority of the Allies led to the Axis's complete defeat. Over 230,000 German and Italian troops were taken as prisoners of war, including most of the Afrika Korps. The first two years of the war in North Africa were characterised by a lack of supplies and an inability to provide any sort of consistent concentrated logistics support. The North African coast has few natural harbours and the main British supply head at Alexandria on the Nile delta was some 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from the main Italian port at Tripoli. Smaller ports at Benghazi and Tobruk were 950 miles (1,530 km) and 600 miles (970 km) west of Alexandria respectively. They were linked by a single road running along a narrow corridor along the coast. At the...