IT MUST have been after the first week in May 1941 that the German High Command began to realize that things were not going too well in Northern Africa. Until then everything had gone beautifully: ...

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 ...

Operation Agreement was meant to strike Tobruk by surprise. Instead, Allied forces sailed into a carefully prepared Axis trap. As HMS Sikh led the assault force toward the harbor under cover of ...

Map Description: The dry, flat desert of Egypt is perfect for this German and British confrontation. Both bases are secluded from the action, but the middle ground is a suicide mission. There are very ...