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The North African Campaign began in June of 1940 and continued for three years, as Axis and Allied forces pushed each other back and forth across the desert. Italy invaded Egypt in September of 1940, and in a December counterattack, British and Indian forces captured some 130,000 Italians. Hitler's response to this loss was to send in the newly formed "Afrika Korps" led by General Erwin Rommel.
In this video, I discuss the second part of the African campaign in Hindi, where, after several long, brutal pushes back and forth across Libya and Egypt reached a turning point in the Second Battle of El Alamein in late 1942, when Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army broke out and drove Axis forces all the way from Egypt to Tunisia
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This is Episode #15 of my World War 2 series - this series covers the entire timeline of the second world war.
Previous video in the WW-2 series: • Ep#12: Invasion of Fra...
Next video in the WW-2 series: • Ep#16: Operation Torch...
Entire WW-2 series (World War 2: From Beginning to End): • World War 2: From Begi...
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African Campaign of World War 2 - Part 1: • Ep#14: African Campaig...
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Book link:
Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead: amzn.to/3JKHGox
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00:00 Introduction
00:54 Why was the Suez Canal important to the British Empire?
02:06 What strategy did Roosevelt and Churchill agree on?
03:30 Claude Auchinleck counter attacks against Rommel
04:12 How did Montgomery take command of the 8th Army?
05:38 The Battle of El Alamein
07:40 Rommel retreats to Tunisia
09:19 Book recommendation to read about the African Campaign