"A marvellous collection of original wartime colour photos…For both historians and modellers, the variations in uniforms and their colours will be a great reference..." — Military Model Scene

Take a visual journey through North Africa during the Second World War with Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Spring as they chart the path of Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps through a series of stunning, rare color photographs. Taken from Ian Spring’s incredible digital archive of over 32,000 original color photographs dated between 1936 and 1946, more than 250 images in Rommel’s Afrika Korps In Color offer readers a vivid, detailed insight into this German expeditionary force and their long North African Campaign. Fascinating color photographs of German soldiers, weaponry, tanks and aircraft fill these pages, and are balanced by the equally captivating and rare photographs of the people and the landscapes of North Africa.

Renowned author and military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones’ remarkable text accompanies Ian Spring’s collection of rare photographs, together making for a highly informative and utterly engrossing read. Rommel’s Afrika Korps In Color affords readers a new way of reading and learning about one of the most unique campaigns in the Second World War, and will stay with them long after they turn the final page.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: The ‘Desert Fox’
  • The Deutsches Afrika Korps
  • Operation Sunflower
  • The Desert War
  • The Kriegsberichter and Deputy Reichspressechef
  • This Remarkable Collection
  • Life and Death in North Africa
• North Africa Chronology: Key Events
• Part One: The Deutsches Afrika Korps Arrives
  • 1 Preparations
  • 2 Build-up in Tripoli
  • 3 Meet the Locals
• Part Two: Hardware of War
  • 4 Panzer Group Afrika
  • 5 Beware the ‘88’
  • 6 Don’t Spare the Suspension
• Part Three: Out into the Desert
  • 7 Baking at the Front
  • 8 Rommel’s Achilles Heel
  • 9 Rest and Recreation
• Part Four: War in the Skies
  • 10 Seaplane to Tripoli
  • 11 Tri-Motor Workhorse
  • 12 Desert Aviation
• Part Five: The Rise and Fall of the Deutsches Afrika Korps
  • 13 Rommel Up Close
  • 14 Defeat in Tunisia
• Deutsches Afrika Korps Order of Battle
• Sources and Further Reading