The Sanusi’s Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917

The Sanusi’s Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917The Sanusi's Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917 by Russell McGuirk
ISBN: 0954479270
on December 1st 2007
Genres: History, Africa, North, Military, World War I
Pages: 332

Len's Summary: Religious warriors of Libya who fought the occupying Italians for two decades following the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. With Turkish backing the warriors led by Ahamad al-Sharif, the charismatic Grand Sanusi, raided into Egypt and French Sudan.