LONDON -- Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces, a disaster which might upset the United Nations' whole war strategy ...

For two years, the Afrika Korps repeatedly drove the British Eighth Army back across the deserts of North Africa. The fall of ...

After earlier becoming a symbol of Allied resistance in North Africa, Tobruk faced disaster in June 1942 when Erwin Rommel struck again. Allied commanders underestimated how quickly his forces could ...

2nd Bn King’s Own Royal Regiment, Cairo, 10th January 1942. Philip Howarth is third from left at back. The reverse of his print was signed by those present. The following account was written by my ...

The following forms part of an account written by my father (Laurence Coates)shortly before his death in 1981. On the nineteenth of June, I was doing a spell of duty on guard. All was very quiet. In ...

On Sunday about 14th June 1942 we were ordered to pull back to El Alamein. Everyone was quickly loaded onto their three ton trucks and they set off east. We joined the stream of vehicles heading east ...

Tobruk (1967) Director: Arthur Hiller Entertainment grade: C+ History grade: C– Tobruk is a port on the east of Libya's Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It was a hard-fought prize ...