Episode 8— The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943
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Laurence Olivier
as Self - Narrator
Paola Colacicchi
as Self - Italian Army
David Belchem
as Self - Western Desert Force
Richard O Connor
as Self - Commander - Western Desert Force
Francis De Guingand
as Self - Military Intelligence - Cairo
Siegfried Westphal
as Self - Afika Korps - Rommel's Chief of Staff
Lawrence Durrell
as Self - British Press Officer - Cairo
Allan Francis Harding
as Self - Commander - 7th Armoured Division
Claude Auchinleck
as Self - C-in-C Middle East Command 1941-42
Winston Churchill
as Self - P.M. of the U.K.
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