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WWII: Battle for North Africa Allies vs. Afrika Korps
Price: $24.99
Director: David McDonald
Manufacturer: Periscope Film LLC
UPC: 827377000255
From September of 1940 until May of 1943, Allied and Axis armies clashed in the deserts of North Africa. Hitler's Afrika Korps, led by the masterful Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, achieved initial success but could not defeat the dogged British forces under Gen. Bernard Montgomery. With the arrival of American forces under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of Operation Torch in late 1942, the tide began to turn, with German forces caught in a pincer. Eventually an army of 275,000 Axis troops surrendered in Tunisia, one of the most stunning defeats of the war and a major turning point. Featured on this DVD are four rare films, some of them made during WWII, about the desert campaign. They include "War on Wheels" shot at the desert proving grounds in California and Arizona, the epic, Academy Award^(tm) winning "Desert Victory" showing the British Eighth Army in action, and "The Battle for North Africa" which covers the campaign from Oran to Kasserine Pass and beyond. Over 140 minutes of material! Films are black and white. Digitally remastered and restored from original 16mm film prints, some of the films on this DVD have never been made available to the public. Because of their age and rarity, image and sound quality can vary.

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Tom's War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944
Average Rating: 5.0
Price: $18.85
Author: James T Hammond
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.

Simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying, Tom’s War: Flying with the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force in Europe, 1944 portrays the training and combat experiences of Thomas D. Hammond. Hammond, a child of the Great Depression, braved the flak-filled skies of Europe in 1944 as copilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress for the U.S. Army.

Hammond represents tens of thousands of young Americans who were proud to risk their lives in the skies over Germany. Although Hammond came home, many did not, including two of his close friends. Hammond’s son, author James T. Hammond, brilliantly immortalizes his father’s wartime memories in Tom’s War.

“Tom’s War … is an excellent read. It is [a] comprehensive, well researched, and insightful documentation of the lives of several 8th Air Force flight crews, bringing home the hopes and despair of the airmen as they strive to destroy enemy targets and survive to finish a tour of combat and be the lucky ones to return safely to family and friends.”—Eugene Fletcher, a former 95th Bomb Group combat pilot and author of The Lucky Bastard Club

EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY 1943 - 45: The Long Hard Slog
Average Rating: 5.0
Price: $30.36
Author: Richard Doherty
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
Eighth Army was Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century.

This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armor.

The book uses official records at various levels, personal accounts - some never before published - and published material to present a picture of an army that, although defined as British, was one of the war's most cosmopolitan formations.

REVIEWS

"exceptionally well written and exhaustively researched... the essential guide for anyone with an interest in the fighting in Italy during the Second World War."Britain at War, April 2008

"...very well done "traditional" military history and "telleth much of the fight". Nymas, 09/2008

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