Author: Brown, James Ambrose.
Title: Retreat to Victory. A Springbok's Diary in North Africa: Gazala to El Alamein 1942.
Description: South Africans At War series. Ashanti. Rivonia 1991 stated 1st edition. Cream cloth boards. 301pp illustrated b/w photos, maps. 8vo. 0.7kg. Neat ownership signature to half-title page. VG+ condition in VG dustwrapper (chip at top front corner, else excellent). ISBN: 9781874800248 Author's diary chronicles the Allied retreat from the Gazala line; Rommel's thrust for Tobruk and its fall with the capture of nearly 40000 men; the retreat into Egypt and the South African stand at El Alamein. A worm's-eye view of the battle with an hour to hour depiction of the battle that sent the enemy back across North Africa.

Keywords: south southern africa african world war second two 2 ii el alamein gazala


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