One of the most important books covering Rommel’s retreat and the battle of Mareth is the British Official History of the Mediterranean and Middle East Volume IV. This gives the main view of the factual details of the offensive and its outcome. The Rommel Papers is always a good start to find out the intimate thoughts of the German commander, and George Forty’s The Armies of Rommel fills in many details regarding the Axis forces. Good contemporary accounts of the advance from Alamein to Mareth and the battle itself exist in the National Archives at Kew, the most interesting of which can be found in the WO201 and WO204 series.
Anon, The Tiger Kills, HMSO: London, 1944
Braddock, D. W., The Campaigns in Egypt and Libya 1940–1942, Gale and Polden: Aldershot, 1964
Carver, Michael, Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign 1940–1942, Batsford: London, 1986
de Guingand, Maj. Gen. Sir Francis, Operation Victory, Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1947
Delaney, John, Fighting the Desert Fox, Arms and Armour: London, 1998
Forty, George, The Armies of Rommel, Arms and Armour: London, 1997
Fraser, David, Knight’s Cross: The Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Harper Collins: London, 1993
Hamilton, Nigel, Monty: Master of the Battlefield 1942–1944, Hamish Hamilton: London, 1983
Irving, David, The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field Marshal Irwin Rommel, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London, 1977
Joslen, Lt. Col. H. F., Orders of Battle: Second World War 1939–1945, HMSO: London, 1960
Liddell Hart, Capt. B. H. (ed), The Rommel Papers, Collins: London, 1953
——, The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment, Volume Two, Cassell: London, 1959
Playfair, Maj. Gen. S. O., The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume IV, HMSO: London, 1966
Verney, Maj. Gen. G. L., The Desert Rats: The History of the 7th Armoured Division, Hutchinson: London, 1954