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WW2’s desert war: everything you wanted to know

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The North African Campaign

North africa captures the overaught trust of where nd the campaign happens. Between really 19 forty one and 19 forty three, the desert war seems to read us moronn on a specific bit of north africa. There's a series of kind of static atritional battles until the th axis forces have one last crack at taking egypt. And then in october and november, we have the famous, kind of second battle of alemain - sometimes as the third battle of alemania. The british and commonwealth forces are being driven west by east african forces from the east,. Until pincer army is eventually defeated in may yet... i guess

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