Victory in the Desert

From the sandy dunes of Egypt to the bullet-blasted cities of Libya and Tunisia, this is the story of the North African Campaign. As Europe quivered beneath the iron boot of the German war machine, hope of a crucial victory elsewhere provided the Allies with a means to fight on. The arena for the next step in the struggle against Nazi Germany was to be North Africa, where defeat would spell disaster, but triumph could well be a vital step towards the ultimate downfall of Hitler's Third Reich. This is the story of how the Allies outfoxed Rommel and opened the way to invading Italy.