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 ...

By late 1942, Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had pushed deep into Egypt and threatened the vital Suez Canal. Britain responded by placing General Bernard Montgomery in command of the Eighth Army and ...

American soldiers dug foxholes into the ridgeline at Djebel Chambi. They had only arrived in North Africa a few weeks ago and faced light resistance from Vichy French troops. The infamous Afrika Korps ...

U.S. staff officers in Normandy last week heard reports they would have liked to believe: that Marshal Erwin Rommel was out of action. One report was that he had been seriously wounded, another that ...