Malta, Rommel and North Africa 1940-43
Explaining History
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North Africa - A Side Show
Hitler's dream of seizing egypt in the suiz canal. If roman could smash the eighth army, he reasoned, british moral would be shattered. The first stage of romald's invasion of egypt was to outflank the british defensive line. Romel then intended to seize tobrook. But ultimately romald's supply lines become self defeating. They omtoo long, and the wat wa rom is defeated by,. not only a massive american re supply of the britishes but also by the logic of desert warfare itself.
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