Название: The Battle of El Alamein: Decision in the Desert
Автор: Correlli Barnett
Издательство: Macmillan
Год: 1964
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 104
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 54,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
The eight-month siege was over. The squat, squealing armoured tanks of the Panzerarmee Afrika had finally broken British resistance and ground their way to the Mediterranean coast. Quick to press his advantage, Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox, issued new orders: “Fortress of Tobruk has capitulated. All units will reassemble and prepare further advance.”
During the next week, Rommel’s war machine clicked with deadly precision. Sudden, swift, shrewdly-manoeuvred thrusts drove the British Eight Army back to El Alamein, just sixty miles from Alexandria, Egypt. Here Rommel was to meet head on with his most wily adversary, Lieutenant-General Bernard L. Montgomery.