Contents

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PREFACE	v
1 AFTER GREECE AND CRETE	1
2 LULL IN THE DESERT WAR	7
3 PREPARING FOR ACTION	23
4 THE CRUSADER PLAN	37
5 EIGHTH ARMY AND PANZER GROUP AFRICA	51
6 FROM BAGGUSH TO THE LIBYAN FRONTIER	62
7 A DISASTROUS BEGINNING	79
8 THE FRONTIER OPERATIONS BEGIN	110
9 HEADING FOR TOBRUK	135
10 SUNDAY OF THE DEAD	156
11 THE ATTACK ON POINT 175	173
12 THE MATRUH STAKES	197
13 THE CAPTURE OF THE BLOCKHOUSE	235
14 SUCCESS AT BELHAMED; FAILURE AT SIDI REZEGH	249
15 JOINING HANDS WITH THE TOBRUK GARRISON	266
16 A COSTLY NIGHT ATTACK ON SIDI REZEGH	286
17 ROMMEL'S ‘EVIL DREAM’	297
18 TWO ATTACKS ON CAPUZZO	315
19 THE LOSS OF 5 BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS	332
20 ROMMEL RETURNS TO THE TOBRUK FRONT	351
21 INCREASING PRESSURE ON 6 BRIGADE	366
22 COUNTER-ATTACK ON THE TOBRUK CORRIDOR	390
23 SIDI REZEGH IS LOST	412
24 BELHAMED AND ZAAFRAN	432
25 PLODDING ON WESTWARDS	466
26 GAZALA AND BEYOND	487
APPENDICES:
I: Casualties in CRUSADER Campaign	524
II: Minutes of Conference between General Freyberg and his Senior Officers at Baggush, 17 October 1941	525
NEW ZEALAND HONOURS AND AWARDS IN CRUSADER CAMPAIGN	528
NOTE ON SOURCES	530
BIBLIOGRAPHY	531
GLOSSARY	537
INDEX	547

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