Desert Warfare: Did you mean...?

A July 1942 photograph of a British Eighth Army Humber Mk II armoured car during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert by Francois-Joseph Navez, c. 1820 CE Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

An Egyptian servant is carrying two desert hares as an offering to Nebamun, a rich Egyptian accountant. Detail of a larger procession of agricultural offerings, from the tomb of Nebamun (c. 1350 BCE). The British Museum...

The Desert Cottontail Rabbit, found in the western regions of the United States.

Safaitic inscription with an image of a Bactrian camel carved on a desert rock. The detailed drawing indicates that the scribe has seen this type of Asian camel, probably along the trade route with China. First...

Safaitic inscriptions on basalt rocks. 1st century BCE to 4th century CE. Jordan Desert or Al Harr’a.

The First Battle of El Alamein (1-27 July 1942) was a series of encounters during the Second World War (1939-1945) in Egypt between Allied and Axis forces. The battle, focussed around the El Alamein defensive line, ended...

We always have to keep in mind that a Documentary, after all, can tell lies and it can tell lies because it lays claim to a form of veracity which fiction doesn't. Some of the documentaries...

Trench warfare on WWI's Western Front (1914–1918) emerged from a strategic stalemate between industrialized armies whose defensive firepower outpaced offensive mobility. After the failure of rapid war plans...

A Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber, captured in North Africa in 1941. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago).