... themselves so com pletely in advance of a battle as he did before El Agheila. He told the world that he was going to beat Rommel, and roll him and his forces out of Africa. Such expressions of self- confidence are usual with General Montgomery and will ...

... strength has been moved against Rommel. Our armed strength is concentrated to smash him and the Afrikakorps. This is the main object. Clearly neither General Alexander nor General Montgomery would be very happy if Rommel found it possible to escape. They ...

... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight lime OBVIOUSLY General Montgomery is work ing to a time-table. He has not allowed Rommel a moment's rest,, and though the Germans are doing their best to fight a delaying action, the issue can be no longer in doubt. A friend ...

... proved one thing. If you give British generals the tools they can do the job. His brilliant outflanking move ment which cut Rommel's retreating columns was a notable piece of military skill. The operation by which General Montgomery forced the Germans out ...

... ■The development of the campaign in Africa reveals the unfolding of a great strategic plan. General Montgomery has chased Rommel's forces out of Egypt and through Libya. At this moment it looks as if General Anderson's First Army will polish them off ...

... Sir Bernard to the stable yard of the C.-in- C.'s headquarters at Ostenwalde where they saw Rommel, the favourite horse of the late Nazi Field-Marshal Rommel r> In the Courtyard of Government House, Zomba Sir Edmund Charles Richards, K.C.M.G. Governor ...

... precision of General Montgomery's latest offensive shows once more his con fidence as well as his careful planning. Obviously Rommel has not the reserves to enable him to dace a stand-to fight. Presumably General Montgomery was aware of this all the time ...

... Sir Oliver's interest in cacti began in the desert during the war, but he told me: Fortunately we were usually pursuing Rommel at that period, so I didn't have much time for serious study. Also in January, three station wagons will be leaving Belgrade ...

... was made by a Polish director, convalescing after a long spell with the Polish Brigade which helped to defend Tobruk against Rommel. Mr. Leytes made it largely with a hand-camera, the sound and the shot-in effects being added afterwards. He himself was ...

... never ceased to be grateful), a soldier ultimately, more or less by accident a rather unfortunate one to his G.O.C., Cyrus. Rommel is a one-way-street traffic cop, who has been continually boosted by Hitler's mouthpiece into being a general of an epoch ...

... as if taking the fuse out of an unexploded bomb. Such care is wise for with Brigadier Desmond Young's favourable view of Rommel already filmed, Twentieth Century-Fox may find themselves accused of filming Germany's war history for her. Even in Germany ...

... of the fabled tiger. The Gurkhas did much the same to the Germans and Itis towards the end of the Desert fighting against Rommel, and there have been many other incidents when cold steel has done the job very quickly and effectively. The tales of the ...