The Afrika Korps, an Organizational History, 1941-1943
Author: George F. Nafziger
Publisher:
Published: 1997-03-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781585450251
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Das Afrika Korps
Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0811740331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II. One of the most famous military units of all time under one of the best commanders. The early campaigns in the Western Desert, Tobruk, El Alamein, and more.
Inside the Afrika Korps
Author: Bruce Gudmundsson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1848329954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western Desert campaign. This in-depth investigation examines the battles of the Afrika Korps as seen through the eyes of a trained general staff officer under Rommel, and gives a key insight into this formidable fighting force at the height of its powers. Inside the Afrika Korps exposes the secrets of this exemplary fighting force’s success as well as highlighting those weaknesses which led to its eventual defeat.
Afrikakorps 1941 - 1942
Author: Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2024-05-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A complete and exhaustive analysis of the actual composition and organisation of the German Afrika Korps and of the Panzer Armee Afrika between the time of the first arrival of German troops in Libya in February 1941 to the battle of El Alamein in October 1942. Commands, subordinated units and the divisions that fought in the Western Desert campaign are described in detail to provide for each one of them the basic organisation, the changes intervened in the unit structure and in the divisional composition down to battalion and company level. Details are provided for special units like the Sonderverband 288 and the Kampfgruppe Burkhardt, the Sonderkommando Dora and other units like the Kampfgruppe Hecker. For each division details and changes in organisation are accompanied by chapters on status, Kampfgruppe formed and unit commanders. The appendices include a complete order of battle for the German forces in Africa in May 1942 and a complete and exhaustive list of all the Knight's Cross winners in North Africa between 1941 and 1943. A must for any researcher interested in the German Army and in the North African campaign.
Rommel's Desert War
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-03
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780521509718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941-3, Rommel's generalship, and the campaign's place within the broader strategic context of the war. He shows that the British were initially helpless against the operational brilliance of Rommel's Panzer divisions. However Rommel's initial successes and refusal to follow orders committed the Axis to a campaign well beyond their means. Without the reinforcements or supplies he needed to deliver a knockout blow, Rommel was forced onto the defensive and Hitler's Mediterranean strategy began to unravel. The result was the loss of an entire army which together with defeat at Stalingrad signalled a decisive shift in the course of the war.
Afrikakorps 1941-1943
Author: Gordon Williamson
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781855329386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The campaign in North Africa between September 1940 and May 1943 holds not only an enduring fascination for postwar generations; but also a perhaps unique degree of nostalgia for some surviving participants. The campaign was no less costly in terms of human lives and material than many others; but regret at the cost is accompanied by positive memories in the minds of many veterans. This is not to suggest that the dead have been forgotten; but an almost mystical bond nevertheless exists, even between former enemies, amongst veterans of the desert campaign. Gordon Williamson examines the history, organisation and uniforms of Rommel's Afrikakorps.
Rommel's Afrika Korps
Author: Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-01-20
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1472800419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert.
Afrika-Korps
Author: Ian Baxter
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1783038101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pictorial history of the Nazi German army expeditionary force deployed to North Africa during World War II between 1941 and 1943. Afrika-Korps is an illustrated record of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel and his desert troops that fought in North Africa against British and Commonwealth forces between 1941 and 1943. Using previously rare and unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the desert campaign, it presents a unique visual account of the famous Afrika-Korps operations and equipment. Thanks to an informative caption with every photograph Afrika Korps vividly portrays how the German Army fought across the uncharted and forbidding desert wilderness of North Africa. Throughout the book it examines how Rommel and his Afrika Korps were so successful and includes an analysis of desert war tactics which Rommel himself had indoctrinated. These tactics quickly won the Afrika-Korps a string of victories between 1941 and 1942. The photographs that accompany the book are a fascinating collection that depicts life in the Afrika-Korps, as seen through the lens of the ordinary soldier.
Das Afrika Korps
Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0811705919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Afrika Korps in action at Hill 208, southwest of Fort Capuzzo --Book Jacket.
The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War Ii
Author: Charles D. Pettibone
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2009-11-18
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 1426978154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What started out as five books, is now eight. Book five being split into three books. This book represents the fifth of eight I plan to write. The series will contain: Volume I-Germany; Volume II-The British Commonwealth; Volume III-The United States; Volume IV-Japan; Volume V, Book A-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Volume V, Book B-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Volume VI-Germanys Allies (Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia) and the Neutral Nations (Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland); and Volume VII-Other Nations at War (Albania, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia).
