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From the same design team as Crusade In Europe, this game uses the same playing mechanisms, this time very much more successfully. Again, the graphics, the briefing booklet and the range of interlinked scenarios offered are all excellent.

The war in the western desert from December 1940 to December 1942 still attracts considerable attention and controversy from old generals and new historians. In a virtually uninhabited wasteland, a handful of highly mobile units, each side short of supplies and with little chance of reinforcements, fought high speed encounter battles as if they were fleets at sea, with the prize the oilfields of the Arabian Gulf. A single regiment of tanks, a weapon now coming into its own, could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Desert war encouraged the unorthodox, the enterprising, and even the foolhardy. It has been called war in its purest form.

Decision In The Desert provides the five most interesting battles of the war, including battles of the war, including two which deserve far more attention than they usually get.