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Amina El-Sayed writes and researches modern conflict with a particular focus on how geography and logistics shape political power. Her work is driven by a conviction that the material foundations of warfare - ports, roads, fuel, information flows - deserve as much attention as tactics and personalities. She approaches military history as a way to illuminate the wider structures within which states and societies operate.In this book, she brings together close reading of operational records with an eye for the lived texture of campaigning in harsh environments. Her interest in the North African theatre reflects a long engagement with the history of the Mediterranean world, where sea routes, deserts, and cities have repeatedly channelled empire and resistance. Rather than offering easy heroism or hindsight certainty, she aims to give readers tools to ask better questions about how campaigns unfold and why they end as they do. El-Sayed's writing is marked by clarity, respect for evidence, and a determination to connect detailed case studies to durable analytical frameworks that students, general readers, and practitioners alike can use.
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. In the North African desert, armies seemed to move with astonishing speed, yet their fate depended on some of the slowest processes in war. Convoys crept across the Mediterranean, fuel dripped ashore through fragile harbours, and every extra kilometre east from Tripoli tightened a noose around Axis ambitions. Rommel in the Desert: The North African Campaign peels back the legend of the Desert Fox to reveal a theatre where desert warfare was governed as much by port capacity, pipelines, and decision cycles as by daring manoeuvre.Amina El-Sayed traces the North African campaign from Italian overreach in Libya to the final Axis retreat, showing how both sides struggled to align operations with what their infrastructure could bear. She follows convoys to Tripoli and Benghazi, supply columns across Cyrenaica, and the slow construction of the British railway and pipeline system into Egypt. Alongside these material foundations, she examines intelligence and deception, from British codebreaking to aerial reconnaissance and dummy tank parks, and shows how information flowed - or failed to flow - into command decisions on both sides. Throughout, she foregrounds operational logistics, supply lines, air-ground cooperation, and the grinding effects of attrition and replacements.Written for students, general readers, and analysts, the book offers more than narrative. It develops a structured approach to campaign analysis, asking what enabled offensives to start, how long they could be sustained, and why seemingly small errors in allocation or timing had outsized consequences in the desert. Readers come away with a reframed understanding of the North African campaign and a set of questions they can apply to other wars: where does power really come from, how far can it travel, and what hidden constraints shape the choices of commanders and governments alike? Amina El-Sayed traces the North African campaign from Italian overreach in Libya to the final Axis retreat, showing how both sides struggled to align operations with what their infrastructure could bear. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9789377940683
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