In 1942, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his battle-hardened Afrika Korps surged across North Africa, pushing the British ...

In October 1942, after months of retreat and stalemate, the British Eighth Army struck back. General Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Lightfoot—an all-out assault to break through German ...

It was dubbed the North African Stalingrad, but the bitter campaign for Tunisia remains one of the least-known of the entire ...

(“Killing Rommel” by Steven Pressfield, Doubleday, $24.95, 333 pages). August 1942 was a tentative, dangerous time for the Allies in the throes of World War II. Hitler and the Japanese were everywhere ...