The Mediterranean & Middle East

Desert offensives and convoy routes are laid out in maps from The Mediterranean & Middle East, part of Britain's officia...

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Desert offensives and convoy routes are laid out in maps from The Mediterranean & Middle East, part of Britain's official history of the Second World War, published by HMSO. Major-General I. S. O. Playfair was among the military historians responsible, and the issues here date from 1954 to 1973; although the catalogue names the opening volume, the maps reach later stages of the campaign. They follow the fighting in North Africa, the defence and supply of Malta, the campaigns in Greece and East Africa, and operations in Syria, Iraq and Italy. Large theatre maps sit beside tactical diagrams of individual corps attacks and naval movements.

Desert offensives and convoy routes are laid out in maps from The Mediterranean & Middle East, part of Britain's official history of the Second World War, published by HMSO. Major-General I. S. O. Playfair was among the military historians responsible, and the issues here date from 1954 to 1973; although the catalogue names the opening volume, the maps reach later stages of the campaign. They follow the fighting in North Africa, the defence and supply of Malta, the campaigns in Greece and East Africa, and operations in Syria, Iraq and Italy. Large theatre maps sit beside tactical diagrams of individual corps attacks and naval movements.

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