Tunisian History

Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History) By Bruce Allen Watson Stackpole Books Paperback (221 pages) List Price: $16.95* Lowest New Price: $3.98* Lowest Used Price: $8.50* Usually ships in 1 to 2 weeks* *(As of 05:04 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the Desert Fox. After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles of El Alamein, where the British under Bernard Montgomery halted Axis expansion in the fall of 1942, followed days later by the Americans' Torch landings in Morocco and Algeria. As the Americans drove the Germans into Tunisia from the west and the British from the east, Rommel routed U.S. forces at Kasserine Pass, but logistical difficulties and the erosion of weapons quality ultimately proved too much to overcome. After his last-ditch attack at Medenine was repulsed, the Desert Fox was forced to evacuate, leaving much of his fabled force to Allied captivity.

Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-1943 By Bruce A. Watson Praeger Hardcover (248 pages) List Price: $86.95* Lowest New Price: $86.95* Lowest Used Price: $39.75* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 05:04 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A study of Rommel's generalship in the context of the fateful Tunisian campaign, this book explores Rommel's generalship through the influential variables of battle, including logistics difficulties, weapons technology, and his relations with Hitler. The legend of the Desert Fox colors most battle accounts of North Africa in World War II, but this is the story of Rommel's performance in the face of defeat. After a detailed discussion of the Alamein battles, July through November 1942, and Rommel's retreat to Tunisia, ending in January 1943, Watson recounts the British and American invasion of North Africa and the confused web of Axis command that spawned the debacle at Medenine. The final three chapters cover selected variables of battle and command to reveal the man behind the legend.

Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Studies in Modern Capitalism) By Lucette Valensi Cambridge University Press Hardcover (277 pages) List Price: $69.95* Lowest Used Price: $36.00* *(As of 05:04 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied. She analyses the nomadic tribes and the sedentary peasants, discussing their social organisation, their economic activity, and their cultural practices. She also explores the changes which affected both the peasantry and the Tunisian state in the nineteenth century, showing how the country's incorporation into the capitalist world economy led to social unrest, and eventually to the general rebellion of 1864 that precipitated the establishment of a French protectorate, thus placing Tunisia in a role of dependence and heralding underdevelopment.