German Afrikakorps Photo Book 1943 Bar Cross WWII DAK Erwin Rommel

Bar Cross over Desert Sand

subtitled: color photographic work of the German Afrika korps

Begins with the loading of troop ships destined for Africa and covers the history of the entire African
theater under General Erwin Rommel. With nice photos of tanks, uniforms, equipment, panzer units,
airplanes, soldiers, officers etc.

Here are some excerpts from an official contemporary book review:
Beginning in the spring of 1941 with the arrival the first units of the German Afrika Korps in Tripoli,
the Balkan Cross insignia of the German Luftwaffe has accompanied the battles and relentless
advance of the German and Italian Axis armies.
In vivid, poignant photographs, in first hand reports and graphic details, the events here in "Afrika"
have been brought once again to life for the reader to experience.
This work is dedicated as a monument to the memory of our unforgettable heroes
of the German Afrika Korps.

Hardcover

159 pages
100 very rare photos, mostly in color
one map

In good exterior and near very good interior condition.
Spine worn with some inconspicuous repair on outer rear hinge, faint foxing to endpapers, fly leaf and last page, two pages with small surface abrasion from adherence at bottom margin, else ok.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 10-1/4" x 8" ~1.6 lbs.

by Luftwaffen Krgsb.K.ie
Published by Gerhard S. Verlag/ OLDB

Table of contents:
- Foreword by Field Marshal Rommel - In an air force war correspondents company. The Ghibli - In the snow and ice of home In paradise - Through the air to General Rommel - Across the sea to General Rommel - Soldiers in North Africa - With a battalion of motorcyclists into the desert Benghazi Rest in Derna - The Advance	- Water and roads in the desert streets - With the Stukas before Tobruk On the cruiser! Out to sea - Tobruk - With Field Marshal Rommel - Adventure in the desert - One day before Sollum - The valley in the desert - About Egypt - bibliography

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