Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961 and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306, Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49, and since then he has published numerous other titles for Osprey including MAA 414, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, MAA 532, Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 and NVG 19, Armour in China 1920-1950. He lives in North Lincolnshire, UK.

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Background: Spanish operations in Morocco since 1909
Abd el Krim's uprising; Spanish disasters, June-August 1921
Spanish operations 1922-25: withdrawal to the 'Primo Line'
Rifian-French confrontation, 1924-25
Rifian attacks into French Morocco, April-July 1925
Pétain brings in major reinforcements, July-September 1925
Pétain's counter-offensive, and Spanish landings, September 1925
Consolidation, winter 1925/26
Joint Spanish-French offensives, May 1926; surrender of Abd el Krim
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An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.