Bir Hakim: Desert Citadel

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Автор: Richard Holmes

Название: Bir Hakim: Desert Citadel

Издательство: Ballantine Books

Серия: Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Battle Book №23

Год: 1971

ISBN: 0345024052

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 158

Размер: 100 Mb

Язык: English

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This is the history of De Gaulle's struggle to make the Free French a factor in the war against Germany, from the dark days of 1940 to the first vindication of France's resolve in a bitter struggle for a desert outpost in North Africa - Bir Hakim. Here Foreign Legionnaires and colonial troops made the military reputation of Free France as they faced the Italian and German forces of Rommel's Afrikakorps, and helped save the British 8th Army from even worse defeat during the collapse of the Gazala Line.