Malta, Rommel and North Africa 1940-43
Explaining History
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The Legend of the Desert Fox
After all the delays and waiting for supplies, which never came, ronald planned his strike against obrok onfour the 20 first of november. He disbelieved italian warnings that the british were about to launch a mager offensive, yet he felt compelled to leave the 20 first pansa division behind to brook and bardia. This would probably have left him with insufficient forces for a successful attack on tobrok. In any case, three days before his planned assault on the port, the newly named british eighth army, commanded by lieutenant general sirallan cunningham, crossed the libian frontier in operation crusader. So by early 19
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