Rommel's Afrika Korps: Tobruk to El Alamein - Pier Paolo Battistelli - Google Books

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In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first…