Talk:Western Desert campaign/Sources

Resources

Online

These are all books which contain information pertinent to the Western Desert Campaign.

Full books

• Desert Warfare: German Experiences in World War II (Command and General Staff College)
• Tactical victory leading to operational failure: Rommel in North Africa (Command and General Staff College; PDF)
• Study of military history through commercial war games: a look at Operation Crusader with the Operational Art of War (Command and General Staff College; PDF)
• Fallen Eagles: The Italian 10th Army in the opening campaign in the western desert, June 1940 - December 1940 (Command and General Staff College; PDF)
• The 9th Australian Division Versus the Africa Corps: An Infantry Division Against Tanks--Tobruk, Lybia, 1941 (Command and General Staff College; PDF and full text)
• The Relief of Tobruk (New Zealand Electronic Text Centre)
• Battle for Egypt (New Zealand Electronic Text Centre)
• Alam Halfa and Alamein (New Zealand Electronic Text Centre)
• Bardia to Enfidaville (New Zealand Electronic Text Centre)
• The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Egypt-Libya (HyperWar)
• The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume One: Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 (Google Books)
• A Battle Report: Alam Halfa (Google Books)

Google books (limited)

• Brazen Chariots: An Account of Tank Warefare in the Western Desert, November-December 1941
• The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand
• Medicine and Victory: British military medicine in the Second World War
• Montgomery's Desert Army
• Rommel's Desert Army
• Operation Compass 1940: Wavell's Whirlwind Offensive
  • Contains a picture of territories prior to the start of the WDC
• The British Army, 1939-45
• The Italian Army, 1940-45
• Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
• World War II
• Post-Victorian Britain, 1902-51
• The Second World War: A Short History
• The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War, 1941
• Strategic Deception in the Second World War
• The Second World War: The hinge of fate
• History of the Second World War
• Rommel's Afrika Korps: Tobruk to El Alamein
• Tank Warfare: Strategy and Tactics
• El Alamein
• The Second World War, 1939-45: A Strategical and Tactical History
• Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move
• Tricolor over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942
• The German Soldier in World War II
• War and Remembrance
• Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (2 Volumes)
• El Alamein 1942: The Turning of the Tide

In print

• Glenn Wahlert. The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41, 2006, ISBN 0 9757699 2 9, Army History Unit
• Mediterranean and Middle East, Playfair, I.S.O., et al. [UK Military Series: History of the Second World War]
  • Volume 1: The Early Successes Against Italy, to May 1941 (ISBN 1-84574-065-3)
  • Volume 2: The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally, 1941 (
  • Volume 3: British Fortunes Reach Their Lowest Ebb