Talk:Western Desert campaign/Sources

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