Tobruk 1941 (Osprey Campaign) by: John Latimer by: David Chandler, Jim Laurier
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Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release date: 16th January, 2001
Media: Paperback
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- An ok book
I liked this book when I first read it however I did notice what seemed to be whole chunks of text lifted directly from the British Official Histories by I.S.O. Playfair that had not been given credit via a footnote on that particular page (the book lacks footnotes on the pages that's not the problem however with such amount of text lifted I would have expected to have seen one to give credit where it is deserved).
With that said I still like the book and it is supported by excellent diagrams, paintings and photos in particular I liked the diagram of what a typical defensive point in the Tobruk perimeter looked like.
This book is worth a look and does appear to give a good overview of the battle and operations fought to relive the garrison.
Rating: 
- More of the same old tat
The narrative is good, I've got no problems with the narrative, it's the pictures I don't like.
They are quite simply garbage. The artist demonstrates that he can do landscapes and sky but everything else eludes him. The anatomy of his figures is very poor(see the dreadful AfrikaKorps engineers), details of equipment are wrong (hilariously his rendering of a bren gun has no pistol grip) and as a whole they are boring symphonies in the key of brown. The details of the shorts on the gunners servicing the (out of scale) 90mm gun are wrong. But the most heinous example is however the Australian night patrol: just a bunch of dull figures in KD and hobnail boots. No plimsolls, no jerseys, no cap comforters, no burnt cork, no captured beretta smg's, oh and nothing to say they're Australians rather than any other troops.
On the whole a dull, lazy effort.
Rating: 
- A very fine book of its kind.
Osprey Campaign Series has produced several fine books. In a fairly short book paticular battles are outlined with supporting maps and pictures.
Tobruk is a fine example of such a book. Military readers will be familiar with such descriptions as a major engagement between tens of thousands of combatants is decided at a point where only a few hundred soldiers actually fight. Such an engagement is the Battle of the Salient in April-May 1941 and it is well covered in the book.
The defence of Tobruk was a monumental task, the Australian force under the command of General Morshead or Ming the Merciless as he was affectionally known by his men where asked to hold Tobruk for eight weeks. The siege lasted 8 months.
In the Desert Was the few towns were of great importance and in paticular places such as Tobruk which had a harbor. The stand of Tobruk prevented Rommel from advancing further to Egypt.
It was a monumental siege and became the very essence of all what the British and the Commonwealth stood for, a bull dog refusing to give in before the mighty Germans and for the first time the Germans could not find victory.
It is a good book of its kind and goes through those eventful 8 months with much detail.
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