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The World at War
Season 1 · Episode 8
The Desert: North Africa (1940–1943)
7.31h 0mDecember 19, 1973
For 2 years the 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Corps fight in the wastes of North Africa. Finally the tide turns at El Alamein.
Episodes
- Episode 1A New Germany (1933–1939)
- Episode 2Distant War (September 1939–May 1940)
- Episode 3France Falls (May–June 1940)
- Episode 4Alone (May 1940–May 1941)
- Episode 5Barbarossa (June–December 1941)
- Episode 6Banzai! Japan (1931–1942)
- Episode 7On Our Way: U.S.A. (1939–1942)
- Episode 8The Desert: North Africa (1940–1943)
- Episode 9Stalingrad (June 1942-February 1943)
- Episode 10Wolfpack: U-Boats in the Atlantic (1939–1944)
- Episode 11Red Star: The Soviet Union (1941–1943)
- Episode 12Whirlwind: Bombing Germany (September 1939–April 1944)
- Episode 13Tough Old Gut: Italy (November 1942-June 1944)
- Episode 14It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma (1942–1944)
- Episode 15Home Fires: Britain (1940–1944)
- Episode 16Inside the Reich: Germany (1940–1944)
- Episode 17Morning (June–August 1944)
- Episode 18Occupation: Holland (1940–1944)
- Episode 19Pincers (August 1944–March 1945)
- Episode 20Genocide (1941–1945)
- Episode 21Nemesis (February–May 1945)
- Episode 22Japan (1941–1945)
- Episode 23Pacific - The Island to Island War (February 1942–July 1945)
- Episode 24The Atomic Bomb (February–September 1945)
- Episode 25Reckoning (April 1945)
- Episode 26Remember