Here are campaigns packed with explosive action from the initial clashes between the British and Italian armies in Libya, and Britain's first unexpected victories, through the fateful British expedition to protect Greece from Hitler's invading troops, and the subsequent desperate battles between British and Commonwealth forces in Crete against determined German paratroopers.
From there, we move on to the epic tank duels in the deserts of North Africa, as Hitler reinforced Mussolini's beleaguered forces with the deadly Afrika Korps and the ultimate showdown between two legendary desert commanders, Rommel and Montgomery, at El Alamein.
Then we have the Americans' debut in the African theater, their bloody setback at Kasserine Pass, and finally success in clearing North Africa of Axis influence.
Finally, there are the Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland, and the stubborn German defense that resisted the attackers almost up to the end of the war in Europe.
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