In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...
“Our task,” explained General Leslie James (“Holy Terror”) Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, “is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to cut at El Duda ...
TIME’S Correspondent Walter Graebner, en route to the U.S. from Moscow, last week cabled from Cairo: I have witnessed one of the war’s greatest spectacles—the dash of the victorious Eighth Army and ...
The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin ...
TOBRUK Libya (Reuters) - Trucks fitted with anti-aircraft cannon, troops and cement roadblocks protect the five-star hotel in Tobruk that is now the surreal last bastion of Libya's fugitive parliament ...
Leon hopes to have an agreement by June 17th. At a press conference in Berlin on Thursday where the talks are taking place, along with officials from numerous countries and the five permanent members ...
TOBRUK, Libya (Reuters) - Bursts of celebratory machine gun fire echoed through the streets of Tobruk on Tuesday as anti-government protesters trashed a monument to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's ...
It's believed the burglar broke into the Wantirna South home earlier this month when no residents were present.