It was, at any rate, a wonderful place for the British ... A few words about the military setting for the great events of October 1942. On July 2, Britain's Eighth Army, driven and harried by Rommel's ...

Operation Compass was a major Allied military operation in the Western ... the Siege of Tobruk and push back Axis forces in North Africa. British forces failed to achieve their objective and ...

But Brigadier General Carl Gray’s special American-British railway corps ... Railway;-now he is director general of Military Railway Services in North Africa. His officers average 16 years ...

albeit smaller British force, noting the reasons for the outcome. They follow the actions of the Italian Army in the subsequent campaigns in North Africa, in which Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps ...