"Nort African Campaign Book Suggestions" Topic

Looking to get into WWII in this theatre. Any good book suggestions?

Well the recently released Battlegroup Tobruk book has just landed in front of me – and first view is very good – and handles the Italians with as much detail as the British and Germans

are you looking for game-related books or historical non-fiction?

here are some good suggestions:

TMP link

Personally, I like:

Crucible of war: Barrie Pitt
The North African Campaign: WGF Jackson
Carver's trilogy
Moorehead's trilogy

Brazen Chariots for Crusader and a micro look at individual tanker level

Looking for historical non-fiction.

PVT641…all of the books listed above and in the link provided by Dave Jackson…are EXACTLY what you are looking for.

Agreed!

You also might consider this: link

Jim

Jim: good call – noted that book on Amazon this morning (pre-ordered).

Saw that one Jim, but haven't actually looked at it.

Thank you Gents!

One other though a bit harder to come by, check Ebay.

Benghazi Handicap but Frank Chadwick. It is a Command Decision Test of Battle book. It covers the period of June 1940 through the end of Crusader in December of 1941. Obviously slanted towards gamers good historical information, orders of battle and a dozen scenarios.

An Army at Dawn is the best on North Africa.

Best single book is "Pendulum of War" by Niall Bar. Although it covers Alam Halfa and the Alamein battles, it covers in detail the tactical successes and failures during these battles in a way which gives insight into both the covered battles and strangely enough earlier British successes and failures. It also attempts to avoid the extreme pro-Montgomery anti-Montgomery perspectives seen in other books. Of course, I still like "The Desert Generals" too (…).

MH