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 ...

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 two years, the Afrika Korps repeatedly drove the British Eighth Army back across the deserts of North Africa. The fall of ...

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 ...

Battle of Tobruk is fought in The Desert Rats as a followup, but not a sequel, to The Desert Fox, the 1951 Field Marshal Rommel feature. Picture is a rather impersonal account of warfare that lacks ...

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 ...