A wave of anger erupted last week in the western coastal city of Sidi Barrani after a police officer shot and killed a resident, Hafeez Hawya Abd Rabbo. Ostensibly, as part of the routine ...

Fact File : Battle of Sidi Barrani. 9 December 1940 to 7 February 1941 Theatre: North Africa Location: Egypt and Cyrenaica (a province of Libya) Players: Allies: General Richard O'Connor's Western ...

Jan 1st 1941. Now that I can write legibly I'm putting down as accurately as I can remember an account of the Battle of Sidi Barrani-it is purely from the personal point of view.

Sidi Barrani (Saint Barrani), Mohamed Salah El-Azab, Cairo: Dar El-Shorouk, 2010. pp 203 “When my grandfather died for the first time, he owned nothing but a stick made of low-quality wood and a ...

THE BATTLE FOR SIDI BARRANI. Before World War 2 Mussolini had been busy invading and harassing the populace of Ethiopia. At first the Italian army encountered set backs at the hands of some of the ...

Jan 1st 1941. Now that I can write legibly I'm putting down as accurately as I can remember an account of the Battle of Sidi Barrani-it is purely from the personal point of view.