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A legendary battlefield commander, Leclerc was most famous for fighting his way north with a Free French force 420 miles from Fort Lamy in Chad to join the British Eighth Army in the Sahara in February 1941.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43
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My company was part of Brigade 401, in the Sinai. It was one of two armored forces that were rotated every three months into action on the front line. In a stroke of good fortune, the brigade commander was Dovik Tamari, Avraham Arnan’s first successor as commander of the sayeret. While we awaited our forward deployment, due in September, he include
... See moreEhud Barak • My Country, My Life
![Cover of Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Illustrated with Working TOC]](https://d1l054mla94ehg.cloudfront.net/media/images/thumbnails/curation/71eb8806227f45d692c34c17984a11f8/thumbnail.jpg?width=50&dpr=2)
In this testing environment, Major General Archibald Wavell, the soldier who lost an eye near Ypres and walked through the Jaffa Gate into Jerusalem with Lawrence in 1917, had been reviving Lawrence’s guerrilla tactics, using cunning, deception, mobility and tiny ‘mosquito columns’ against elephantine Italian forces. Wavell had been appointed Briti
... See moreNicholas Rankin • A Genius for Deception
