Fighters Over the Desert: The Air Battle in the Western Desert, June 1940 to December 1942

256 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Early Operations; First Libyan; '109s Above!'; 'Battleaxe'; Stalemate; 'Crusader'; Halfway Back; The Battle of Gazala; The Stand on the Alamein Line; The Battle of Alam el Halfa; The Battle of El Alemein; Conclusions; Appendix 1: Performance figures for fighter aircraft; Appendix 2: Equivalent ranks and units; Appendix 3: Pilots of the Commonwealth Air Forces; Appendix 4: Pilots of Luftwaffe; Appendix 5: Decorations awarded to aircrew of the Commonwealth Air Forces; Appendix 6: Major decorations awarded to German  pilots; Appendix 7: Order of Battle; Appendix 8: Luftwaffe bomber, dive-bomber and reconnaissance unites; Appendix 9: Operational strengths of Italian aircraft types; Appendix 10: Commanders of Italian fighter unites; Appendix 11: The circumstances of the death of Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille; Pullout Map of the Western Desert; Map of the Gazala Area; Map of the El Alamein Area; Illustrations.