Author: Diamond, Jon
Title: Archibald Wavell
Description: Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2012, 1st edition. Large format paperback, F. 64pp, colour & b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. Osprey Command Series vol 28. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 9781849087377 ¶ A brief overview of the military career of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell [ 1883 - 1950 ] British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War & the First World War. In the Second World War, he served initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, in which role he led British forces to victory over the Italian Army in Eritrea-Abyssinia, western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in the Western Desert in April 1941.

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