The Desert War: The North African Campaign, 1940-1943Lord Wavell comments in his introduction, "North Africa has always been one of the great battlegrounds of history. Much blood has been shed in those obligerating sands. It was in accordance with the fitness of history that North Africa should have been the scene of a great struggle in the greatest of all wars, the Second World War." |
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