The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary
commandersTold largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and
lettersIn a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored
thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the
notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's
toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis
campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that
netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal's baton. By
fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the 2 battles of El
Alamein, the Afrika Korps teetered on the brink of defeat, which would
come in Tunisia 6 months later.