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    Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign
    Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign
    Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign
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    Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign

    By Ken Delve

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    For fans of Philip K. Dick and Harry Turtledove, a World War II alternate history novel that imagines a victory for Germany’s Rommel in North Africa.
     
    Summer 1942, and the war in the Middle East is in the balance. Rommel’s Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis shipping routes across the Mediterranean he is denied those supplies. Meanwhile, the Allied build-up continues, and Montgomery holds at El Alamein and then counter attacks. Rommel is pushed back and then, in a double blow, the Allies land in Tunisia. The collapse of North Africa leads to the invasion of Italy and contributes to the final Axis defeat.
     
    But what if Rommel had won?
     
    In this alternate history, Ken Delve proposes that with a few strategic changes by the Axis powers and poor decision by Allied Commanders, the outcome of could have been very different. In this scenario, the Allied invasion in Tunisia fails, Rommel defeats Montgomery and seizes Egypt, leaving the Germans well-placed to sweep up through the Middle East, capturing oil installations and joining up with German forces in Russia.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 30, 2019
    ISBN9781784383886
    Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign

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      Disaster in the Desert – An interesting investigationKen Delve a military historian, former RAF navigator, has given an alternative view of the Battles for North Africa. People often forget about the desert war, and how important it was that Britain won it, as this would open the way for the invasion of Italy.Delve gives an alternative look at what might have happened if things had gone to plan for the Axis powers. These are the sort of questions historian like to look at, the what if questions. This book is one of those, what if Rommel had won, what would needed to have happened.This book shows the depth of knowledge Delve has over the African campaign, to be able to run what if scenarios you actually need to know what happened. Not only what happened, why it happened, the causes, the supply lines of men and equipment, geography and all arms of the military working together.Delve proposes that with a few strategic changes by the Axis powers and that poor decisions by Allied forces and the outcomes could have been different. Well yes of course this is all true and would have allowed the Germans free reign on the African continent and the Middle East, while pinning the Allies down to a small island in the north east Atlantic.This is an interesting book, and these scenarios have probably been run in many officer training academies. This is the first time we the general public have been asked to think through those various scenarios. What it does make clear, it does not matter how good your men are, your equipment is, if you cannot keep them resupplied then everything is going to end painfully. An excellent book that certainly gets you thinking and looking at the maps once again seeing the what ifs and trying to apply them. All I can say is thank God for Malta.

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