Editing Operation Compass (section)

==References==
'''Books'''
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* {{cite book |last1=Bierman |first1=John |last2=Smith |first2=Colin |title=The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II |publisher=Viking |year=2002 |location=New York |isbn=978-0-670-03040-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/battleofalameint00bier}}
* {{cite book |first=David |last=French |title=Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919–1945 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2001 |orig-year=2000 |isbn=978-0-19-924630-4}}
* {{citation |last=Harding |first=J. (BGS) |title=Appendix E, H.Q. Cyrenaica Command Intelligence Summary No. 6 (23 Feb 41) WO 169/1258 |date=23 February 1941 |via=The National Archives}}
* {{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Sir David |author-link=David Hunt (diplomat) |title=A Don at War |url=https://archive.org/details/donatwar0000hunt
|url-access=registration |publisher=Frank Cass |location=London |year=1990 |orig-year=1966 |isbn=978-0-7146-3383-1}}
* {{cite book |ref={{harvid|IOH|1979}}
|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=La prima offensiva britannica in Africa settentrionale (ottobre 1940 – febbraio 1941) |trans-title=The First British Offensive in North Africa (October 1940 – February 1941) |year=1979 |language=it |publisher=Esercito. Corpo di stato maggiore: Ufficio storico Annex 32 |volume=I |location=Rome |oclc=6863876}}
* {{cite book |last=Long |first=Gavin |author-link=Gavin Long |title=To Benghazi |year=1952 |series=[[Australia in the War of 1939–1945]] |publisher=[[Australian War Memorial]] |location=Canberra |edition=12th online scan |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1070200/ |access-date=13 July 2015 |oclc=314648263}}
* {{cite book |first=Compton |last=Mackenzie |author-link=Compton Mackenzie |title=Eastern Epic: September 1939 – March 1943 Defence |volume=I |publisher=Chatto & Windus |location=London |year=1951 |oclc=59637091}}
* {{cite book |first=Major Kenneth |last=Macksey |author-link=Kenneth Macksey |editor1-last=Pitt |editor1-first=B. |editor2-last=Mason |editor2-first=D. |series=Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, Battle Books |volume=22 |title=Beda Fomm: The Classic Victory |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |year=1972 |orig-year=1971 |isbn=978-0-345-02434-3}}
* {{cite book |first=Richard |last=Mead |title=Churchill's Lions: A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II |year=2007 |publisher=Spellmount |location=Stroud |isbn=978-1-86227-431-0}}
* {{cite book |last1=Montanari |first1=Mario |title=Le Operazioni in Africa Settentrionale: Sidi el Barrani (Giugno 1940 – Febbraio 1941) Parte Seconda |trans-title=Operations in North Africa: Sidi el Barrani (June 1940 – February 1941) Second Part |volume=I |edition=2nd [online scan] |year=1990 |publisher=Esercito Italiano Ufficio Storico |location=Roma |url=https://issuu.com/rivista.militare1/docs/africa-sett-vol-i-parte2-sngola-testo |access-date=26 November 2019 |oclc=885609741}}
* {{cite book |last=Pitt |first=B. |title=The Crucible of War: Wavell's Command |volume=I |year=2001 |orig-year=1980 |edition=Cassell |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |isbn=978-0-304-35950-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/crucibleofwar00pitt}}
* {{cite book |ref={{harvid|Playfair|1957}} |first1=Major-General I. S. O. |last1=Playfair |author1-link=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair |first2=Commander G. M. S. |last2=with Stitt [[Royal Navy|R.N.]] |first3=Brigadier C. J. C. |last3=Molony |first4=Air Vice-Marshal S. E. |last4=Toomer |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=J. R. M. |editor-link=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series |title=The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941) |volume=I |publisher=HMSO |year=1957 |orig-year=1954 |edition=4th |isbn=978-1-84574-065-8 |display-authors=1}}
* {{cite book |ref={{harvid|Playfair|1956}} |first1=Major-General I. S. O. |last1=Playfair |author1-link=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair |first2=Captain F. C. |last2=with Flynn [[Royal Navy|RN]] |first3=Brigadier C. J. C. |last3=Molony |first4=Air Vice-Marshal S. E. |last4=Toomer |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=J. R. M. |editor-link=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series |title=The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Germans Come to the Help of their Ally (1941) |volume=II |publisher=Naval & Military Press |year=2004 |orig-year=1st. pub. [[HMSO]] 1956 |isbn=978-1-84574-066-5 |display-authors=1}}
* {{cite book |last=Richards |first=Denis |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RAF-I/UK-RAF-I-5.html |access-date=16 May 2017 |title=Royal Air Force 1939–1945: The Fight At Odds |volume=I |location=London |publisher=[[HMSO]] |year=1974 |orig-year=1953 |edition=pbk. |isbn=978-0-11-771592-9}}
* {{cite book |last=Rodd |first=F. |author-link=Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell |title=British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa during the Years 1941–1947 |year=1970 |orig-year=1948 |publisher=HMSO |location=London |edition=repr. Greenwood Press, CT |oclc=1056143039}}
* {{cite book |last=Terraine |first=John |title=The Right of the Line |year=1997 |orig-year=1985 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |location=London |edition=Wordsworth |isbn=978-1-85326-683-6}}
* {{cite book |first=Ian W. |last=Walker |title=Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa |publisher=Crowood |year=2003 |location=Marlborough |isbn=978-1-86126-646-0}}
* {{cite book |first=Archibald |last=Wavell |series=Wavell's Official Despatches |title=Operations in the Middle East from 7th December, 1940 to 7th February, 1941 |date=25 June 1946}} published in {{London Gazette |issue=37628 |date=25 June 1946 |pages=3261–3269 |supp=y |ref=none}}
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'''Theses'''
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* {{cite thesis |first=Howard R. |last=Christie |title=Fallen Eagles: The Italian 10th Army in the Opening Campaign in the Western Desert, June 1940 – December 1940 |type=MA |year=1999 |publisher=U. S. Army Command and General Staff College |location=Fort Leavenworth, KS |id=A116763 |url=http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll2/id/597 |access-date=25 March 2015 |oclc=465212715 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216220301/http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll2/id/597 |url-status=dead }}
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