Tripoli to Takrouna - 2 New Zealand Division's last campaigns in North Africa
With Glyn Harper
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On 23 January 1943 the New Zealanders were the first Commonwealth troops to enter the city of Tripoli. Following that thy continued to Takrouna, which became the site of the last major action by New Zealand troops in North Africa. Following the Battle of the Mareth Line, Axis forces were driven back into Tunisia. On 19 April New Zealand forces prepared for an assault on Takrouna, then held by the Italian CCLXXXV Paratroopers Battalion "Folgore", elements of the Italian 66th regiment and one German platoon.

Glyn Harper QSM is a New Zealand historian who specialises in the military history of the 20th century. He has published several books on New Zealand's participation in the First and Second World Wars. Before becoming a writer, he served for eight years in the Australian Army before transferring to the New Zealand Army. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 2001 from the University of New England with a thesis on Howard Kippenberger, a New Zealand general of the Second World War. He then served as the official historian for New Zealand's military deployment to East Timor from 1999 to 2001. He retired from the New Zealand Army in 2001 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He became a lecturer at Massey University in Palmerston North, and was made an associate professor in military studies the following year. In 2003 he was appointed director of the Centre for Defence Studies. He is currently Professor of War Studies at Massey University, and supervises doctoral students.

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