At Gazala in 1942, Erwin Rommel used a bold flanking maneuver to swing his Afrika Korps around the weaker southern end of the ...
The daring exploits of the Afrika Korps secured Rommel a reputation as a brilliant tactician. Dr Niall Barr looks beyond the myth and asks why this legendary commander never achieved a lasting victory ...
The North African campaign was unlike any other theater of World War II. Across the deserts of Libya and Egypt, Erwin ...
LONDON -- Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces, a disaster which might upset the United Nations' whole war strategy ...
For the British it was utter, humiliating defeat. Tobruk, the same battle-scarred port that last year held out for eight months against Axis besiegers, succumbed to one day’s attack. Tobruk fell ...
Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, ...
Players: Allies: 9th Australian Division under Major General Leslie Morshead, partially replaced by British and Polish troops between August and October. Axis: General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrika ...
Tobruk (1967) Director: Arthur Hiller Entertainment grade: C+ History grade: C– Tobruk is a port on the east of Libya's Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It was a hard-fought prize ...