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Rommel's Greatest Victory : The Desert Fox and the Fall of Tobruk, Spring 1942
Rommel's Greatest Victory The Desert Fox and the Fall of Tobruk Spring 1942 Author:Samuel Mitcham In May of 1942, Erwin Rommel, already famed as the "Desert Fox," launched an audacious campaign against the British forces defending the road to Alexandria, the Suez canal, and the oil-rich Middle East. The prize was Tobruk, the most important port along the Libyan coast east of Tripoli, the Axis base of operations. Possession of this ... more »fortress would give the Afrika Korps a secure base of supply almost a thousand miles closer to the Egyptian border.« less