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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
An excellent account of the military campaigns in North Africa from 1942 to 1943 that begins with Operation TORCH (the Allied invasion of Morocco and Algeria) and ends with the defeat of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps.
I'm still only about about 20% through the book but it is utterly gripping, right from the first page of the prologue. It's no surprise that the author won a Pullitzer Prize for this book.
He provides an amazing picture of the campaign, right from the high level strategies through to the stories of the men who fought it: who they got along with, who they hated, what they felt, what they hoped and all too often how they died.
This book is definately deserving of a place amongst my collection of books on military campaigns through the 20th century.