MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST VOLUME II: The Germans Come to the Help HB NEW

MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST VOLUME II: The Germans Come to the Help of their Ally (1941). HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY\nRommel rides to Italy\u2019s rescue, Malta is bombarded, Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete are lost, and Iraq and Syria are secured for the Allies.\nThe second of the eight volumes dealing with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War, this book is largely concerned with the consequences of Germany\u2019s decision to prop up its faltering Italian ally in North Africa in 1941. It opens with General Rommel reversing Britain\u2019s conquest of Italian Cyrenaica, and increasing Axis air attacks on the fortress island of Malta. Britain\u2019s naval victory against the Italians at Cape Matapan in March is swiftly followed by British reverses in the Balkans. A British-backed anti-Nazi coup d\u2019etat in Yugoslavia results in April in Germany\u2.