The War in North Africa, 1940-1943 : A Selected Bibliography

Greenwood Press, Westport, first edition, (third printing), 1996. Laminated boards, 8vo, 23 cm,. vii, 119 pp. 504 entries. In Part I : Narrative and Historiographical Survey (pages 1 - 75), Baxter considers the various North African campaigns in more or less chronological sequence, highlighting the main issues and controversies about the war and its personalities, and discussing and evaluating what has been written about them. The contents of this part are : 1 Historical Background; 2 Sources for Research on the War in North Africa; 3 The Desert War, 1940-1942; 4 The Axis Powers in North Africa; 5 Montgomery, Alam Halfa, and El Alamein; 6 Torch: The Landings in French North Africa; 7 The Tunisian Campaign; 8 Future Research. These narrative chapters integrate comment on the majority of the works listed in Part II : Bibliography, which occupies the remainder of the book and lists some 504 works (books and major articles), principally English-language works but including a few German and Italian publications. Entries in the Bibliography give author, title, publisher, place and date of publication. With a general index. Fine.