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Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPen & Sword Military
- Publication dateSeptember 28, 2019
- File size3333 KB
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- ASIN : B07WCVZJKG
- Publisher : Pen & Sword Military (September 28, 2019)
- Publication date : September 28, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 3333 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 366 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #715,607 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #551 in Biographies of World War II
- #2,003 in Military & Spies Biographies
- #2,701 in World War II History (Kindle Store)
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There are several other narratives about this period of WWII that directly overlap this book. Robert Crisp's Brazen Chariots covers the Operation Crusader portion of Joly's and at times looks at the exact same battlefields from different spots on the terrain. Alamein to ZemZem by Keith Douglas is a view of the campaign from a neighboring unit and also compliments this book. The three are well worth the attention of anyone who is interested in this campaign.
It is a story told, not with maps and overarching strategy, and not told from a "look back" perspective. But a story of the war from the turret, encompassing what you can see from a set of binoculars and a wireless headset.
Real, without added post war drama.