Books
Books about North African Campaign (30 books)
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Phase
North African Campaign
1940–1943 CE
The North African Campaign involved British, Commonwealth, Italian, German, Free French and American forces fighting across desert terrain from 1940 to 1943. Supply lines, armour, air power and ports mattered as much as battlefield manoeuvre. The campaign eventually ended with Axis surrender in Tunisia.
It mattered because control of North Africa affected the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal and the route into Italy. Desert war also created a distinctive setting of heat, distance, improvisation and mobile fighting. It works well for novels about tank crews, nurses, commandos, intelligence officers, prisoners and colonial troops.
World War II fiction has a very large reading audience, from Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Kate Atkinson's Life After Life to Robert Harris, Alan Furst, Herman Wouk, Kristin Hannah and Ken Follett. Series and thrillers often use occupied Europe, intelligence work, resistance networks, codebreaking, naval war and family survival as their core material. These entries should therefore support both literary novels and high-conversion series pages for wartime, espionage, Holocaust, home-front and military fiction.
Related people for North African Campaign
Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Benito Mussolini1883–1945 Bernard Montgomery1887–1976 Douglas MacArthur Erwin Rommel1891–1944 George S. Patton George Washington1732–1799 Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882 Harry S. Truman1884–1972 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Kim Il Sung1890–1969 Napoleon1769–1821 Omar Bradley Robert Clive1725–1774 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald1775–1860 Ulysses S. Grantborn 1946 Winston Churchill1874–1965
Non Fiction
Non Fiction about North African Campaign (15 books)
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
