![Embattled Tobruk lies under a pall of smoke during Rommel’s push to capture the vital North African port city in the spring of 1941.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/W-Tobruk-Lead-4C-Nov04-e1701469162971-760x428.jpg)
Sir Archibald Wavell
The Siege of Tobruk: WWII’s Debacle in the Desert
by Michael D. HullSidi Barrani, Bardia, Sollum, Sidi Rezegh, Mersa Matruh, Bir Hacheim, El Agheila, Beda Fomm, Sidi Omar, Benghazi … The names of many remote villages in North Africa were written into history in 1941-1942 as British and Axis armies battled back and forth across the scrubby desert wastelands of northern Egypt and Libya. Read more