Description:31 January 1941: The tide of the Desert War in North Africa has turned against Italy, which has attacked British-occupied Egypt. The Italian northern front has collapsed and their army is in full retreat west towards Tripoli. Meanwhile in the far south among some isolated hills, two small mobile Special Forces units of the belligerent nations, the Autocompagnia Sahariana di Cufra and T Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group, clash. This story was to become known as the incident at Jebel Sherif.26 November 2006: After a long journey from the north, another small group rediscovers the same hills.This is the story of the incident at Jebel Sherif. For the first time, all available reports and accounts have been gathered and evaluated. An interview with a NZ veteran and the assistance of the LRDG Patrol Commander’s son, together with two recent visits to the location, have allowed the authors to draw the most probable conclusions about the sequence of events.The book provides not only full details about the incident at Jebel Sherif, but also contains a dramatic account of the desert journey to and from this very remote location.This book is intended as a memorial to those — of any nation — who suffered and lost their lives during the years of the colonial occupation of Libya, the Second World War and all the conflicts that followed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Incident at Jebel Sherif: In Search of the First Clash of the Special Forces 1941/2009. To get started finding Incident at Jebel Sherif: In Search of the First Clash of the Special Forces 1941/2009, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
188
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
2009
ISBN
0620420103
Incident at Jebel Sherif: In Search of the First Clash of the Special Forces 1941/2009
Description: 31 January 1941: The tide of the Desert War in North Africa has turned against Italy, which has attacked British-occupied Egypt. The Italian northern front has collapsed and their army is in full retreat west towards Tripoli. Meanwhile in the far south among some isolated hills, two small mobile Special Forces units of the belligerent nations, the Autocompagnia Sahariana di Cufra and T Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group, clash. This story was to become known as the incident at Jebel Sherif.26 November 2006: After a long journey from the north, another small group rediscovers the same hills.This is the story of the incident at Jebel Sherif. For the first time, all available reports and accounts have been gathered and evaluated. An interview with a NZ veteran and the assistance of the LRDG Patrol Commander’s son, together with two recent visits to the location, have allowed the authors to draw the most probable conclusions about the sequence of events.The book provides not only full details about the incident at Jebel Sherif, but also contains a dramatic account of the desert journey to and from this very remote location.This book is intended as a memorial to those — of any nation — who suffered and lost their lives during the years of the colonial occupation of Libya, the Second World War and all the conflicts that followed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Incident at Jebel Sherif: In Search of the First Clash of the Special Forces 1941/2009. To get started finding Incident at Jebel Sherif: In Search of the First Clash of the Special Forces 1941/2009, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.