Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign of 1940-1942

About this book

Having written acclaimed accounts of Tobruk and El Alamein Field Marshal Lord Carver has used newly available first-hand historical resourcesincluding the recently released war diaries and private papers of General Sir Neil Ritchie the predecessor to Montgomery in command of the Eighth Armyto reassess the story of the British campaign in the North African desert. History shows that several key figures in these battles were wrongly criticized and Carver sets the record straight.