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| | JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Auchinleck Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | Auchinleck suffered a series of defeats in North Africa at the hands of Rommel, culminating in the fall of Tobruk, before the defensive line was stabilized at the First Battle of El Alamein. |
 | | Auchinleck's papers include typescript and autograph letters, cipher messages, telegrams, despatches, reports, military orders, memoranda, and the texts of speeches by Auchinleck. |
 | | The collection is of central importance for students of military history, particularly the Desert Campaign, and for research into the final years of British rule in India, the rise of the nationalist independence movement, the transfer of power from Britain to India, and the formation of Pakistan. |
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