Silent night: The defeat of NATO

Joly, Cyril

Cassell

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation of armoured warfare in such inhospitable conditions, warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind. From 1940 to 1943 the battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again; for most of the time the British armour (of which a great deal was obsolescent or plain obsolete) was either outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel's Afrikakorps, while occasionally suffering the ineptitudes of higher command. Highly praised when it was published in 1955, this is a first-hand narrative of these campaigns as scan through the eyes of a young officer in the 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats. Take These Men tells of fortitude in hardship, courage in the face of odds, of great events that are a legitimate source of pride to those who endured them. 'A vivid and accurate piece of reporting'The Literary Supplement `As observation and as writing it is exceptional'Manchester Guardian `Carries us back into the atmosphere of the Western Desert Kith an almost uncanny waft of sight and smell ... a remarkable saga of armour: the first of its genus, the best of its species'Bernard Fergussun.. Sunday Times

Take These Men (Echoes of War)

History

Americas

Ashford Pr Pub

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly’s classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind.From 1940 to 1943 battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again. Often the obsolescent British armour was outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, and frequently it suffered from the ineptitudes of higher command.Cyril Joly’s first-hand narrative of these campaigns, highly praised when it was originally published in 1955, tells the story through the eyes of a young officer in the 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats. It describes in accurate, graphic detail the experience of tank warfare over seventy years ago, recalling the fortitude of the tank crews and their courage in the face of sometimes overwhelming odds.

Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Pen and Sword Military

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