... Stroheim Rommel's confidence. In this dilemma, which, I must say, Mr. Tone handles very prettily, he manages, without giving himself away, to find out the secret of the Five Graves to Cairo live ammunition uumps in the desert, which Von Stroheim Rommel has ...

... lost to the Japanese. We were still reeling from the effects of the surrender of General Klopper at Tobruk with 30,000 troops Rommel had advanced to the very gates of Cairo, and it was very largely the self-sacrifice of the R.A.F. which had temporarily saved ...

... up my s trousers. I defy any man to keep up his dignity when his J> 1 trousers are slipping down. s I One sidelight is of Rommel lecturing captured British officers on tactics. Your tactics surprised me, he S told an infantry brigade commander. What ...

... defended, and right well, but above all they were briefed to attack, to hit at the shipping lanes that were the life-line of Rommel. Eventually, when the Afnka Korps was penned between two armies in Tunisia, the fact of Malta's survival denied the Germans ...

... and the South of France landings; Capt. Wm. Gladstone Agnew, the gunnery specialist of the famous Force K which scourged Rommel's Med supply lines; and Capt. R. St. Vincent Sherbrooke, who won the V.C. in the Barents Sea action. The Navy is here as ...

... campaigns. It is true that when I was reading it I often regretted that the writer had given so much space to his analysis of Rommel's strategy and Montgomery's greater brilliance, and had not concentrated on his own smaller, but essential, part in the fighting ...

... Gibbons. (Longmans js. Od.) Death Came Softly. By E. C. K. Lorac. (Collins Js. Od.) Between rounds the men who out-manceiivre Rommel GENERAL MONTGOMERY, Commander of the Eighth Army-, and GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG, V.C., Commander of the New Zealand Division ...

... descends upon the desert, bringing new life to the sorely-tried Eighth Army and turning the tide of war. After Alma Haifa, when Rommel's armour cracked against the Alamein line, the fortunes of de Guingand and Montgomery were wholly linked. They worked together ...

... industry, she diarizes world events of the ordeal year from September, i 94 1 including Pearl Harbour and the Japanese push, Rommel's North Africa advance and Tobruk's fall, the German drive along the Russian front to Stalin grad. How all this, and the fighting ...

... acted. In addition, Brice was able to provide the Eighth Army with a route across the salt marshes, so that they could cross Rommel's line of retreat. A useful fellow, in fact. In contrast with these adventures, Brice's meeting with his son and his reco ...

... disproportionate to the causes. I don't suggest that the desert patrol should have got through the enemy lints and blown up Rommel's headquarters, but some measurable achieve ment, I feel, some concrete result of their grit and endurance, might conceivably ...

... every evening in the desert. The Eighth Army, on the other side of the lines, listened to it, too. Montgomery's men liked Rommel's tune, and adopted it changed the beat, translated the words, and made it their own marching tune. They rolled westwards ...