Tricolor Over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942 - Hardcoverby Edward L. Bimberg (Author) This is the story of the early struggles of an ill equipped ragtag French force, among the first to pledge its loyalty to General de Gaulle. It fought a lonely, almost secret war against the numerically superior Italian troops deep in the wildest parts of the Sahara, hundreds of miles from the main campaigns along the African coast. These daring Free French raids with their long thirsty treks and small scale oasis battles