With Rommel now in full retreat, and Allied landings on the coast of North Africa far to the West, the desert campaign was drawing to a close. It had tested alliances to breaking point but ...

And it was here, in North Africa, that his true talents as a bold and daring commander of fast-moving armoured formations were properly revealed. But Rommel attacked before the British were ready.

The strategic importance of the back-and-forth fighting between Allied and Axis troops in North Africa from 1941 to 1943 has long been ... but then General Erwin Rommel's dash and flair raised the ...

Rommel was born in 1928 to Lucie ... to Field Marshall rank and was widely known as the “Desert Fox” for his deft command of Nazi Germany’s troops in North Africa. Field Marshall Rommel, ...

Rommel’s performance in North Africa bear this out. He arrived in Africa when the Axis forces were in disarray and in danger of being driven completely off the continent. The Italian Army had ...

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, since the North Africa front begin two years previously, had become the overall commander of the German infantry and armor in the region. As history notes ...

Codenamed Operation Flipper, the mission's main objective was to destroy the presumed headquarters of the famous Nazi General Erwin Rommel ... Allied success in North Africa.