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PREFACE v
1 THE PAUSE AT BARDIA 1
2 SQUARING UP TO THE AGHEILA POSITION 11
3 LEFT HOOK AT EL AGHEILA 32
4 NOFILIA 58
5 PREPARING TO HURRY TO TRIPOLI 74
6 ‘ON TO TRIPOLI’ 96
7 THE MEDENINE INCIDENT 122
8 PREPARING FOR PUGILIST 154
9 PUGILIST—A CHECK 176
10 SUPERCHARGE—A VICTORY 198
11 CONCENTRATION AT GABES 234
12 BREAKTHROUGH AT AKARIT 251
13 UP AGAINST IT AT ENFIDAVILLE 281
14 ORATION—A SOLDIERs' BATTLE 312
15 THE END IN NORTH AFRICA 342
16 CONCLUSION 372
APPENDICES
I: Allied and Axis Casualties, North Africa, October 1942 – May 1943 385
II: Principal Appointments and Order of Battle, 2 New Zealand Division, November 1942 - May 1943 387
BIBLIOGRAPHY 391
GLOSSARY 395
INDEX 405

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Title: Bardia to Enfidaville

Author: Stevens, Major-General W. G.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1962, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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