Rommel’s Failed Gamble: The “Six Days’ Race”
•December 7, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
The British defeat of Panzerarmee Africa at Alam El Halfa in 1942 was a turning point in the North African campaign. More »
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The British defeat of Panzerarmee Africa at Alam El Halfa in 1942 was a turning point in the North African campaign. More »
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A beleaguered group of British soldiers took a fearful toll of axis armor at El Alamein. More »
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The Australian 9th Division defeated the Africa Korps at the Libyan port city on April 13-14, 1941. More »
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An attempt to capture of kill the Desert Fox failed but the effort made a hero of Geoffrey Keyes. More »
•November 30, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Sir Richard O’ Connor and Operation Compass stunned the Italian forces in North Africa. More »
•November 19, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
The underrated British General won two major battles against supposedly unbeatable Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa. More »
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When planning the relief of Tobruk in late 1941, British Eighth Army commanders brusquely discounted the opposition they would face from Italian armored forces. More »
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The defeat of the Afrika Korps at El Alamein initiated a long retreat and eventual surrender for Axis forces. More »
•October 31, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
By Michael D. Hull
After more than two wearying years of seesaw fighting across the North African desert, the outlook was bleak for the British Eighth Army in the early summer of 1942.
The gallant but dispirited army had been outgunned and outmaneuvered by German panzers, deadly 88mm flak guns, and generalship More »
•October 26, 2018 • Read Comments (2)
A daring team of commandos set out to eliminate the biggest obstacle to British fortune, German General Erwin Rommel. More »
