The Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill - The Race to Tunis

The Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill - The Race to Tunis
With Ian Mitchell
Part of the Torch to Tunis series on WW2TV
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The Battle of the Peaks is an often overlooked battle in the hills of northern Tunisia - the fascinating story of a successful British victory in April 1943 largely achieved by the 78th “Battle Axe” Division. In today's show Ian Mitchell will describe how well led British troops wrested control of a series of high peaks, and thus inflicted a clear defeat on troops of the famed Afrika Korps. This in turn secured a victory which soon led to the surrender of 250,000 Axis troops in May 1943.

Ian Mitchell was born and brought up in Yorkshire and earned a BA in History from Lancaster University. He began his working life as a librarian working for the Royal Navy. This experience led him to join the Royal Naval Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in 1979 before being commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1982. In 1986 Ian transferred to British Army where he served in a range of education and training roles in the UK and Germany. He left the Army as a Major in 1997 to pursue a third career working on major training projects in the defence industry before taking early retirement in 2013.

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