Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping...
During World War II the Germans came close to the camp, but never actually reached it. At the battle of El Alamein in 1942, the whole area was mined, and fortifications were set up. A year later Roosevelt and Churchill met at Menah House, a near-by hotel...
Rommel performed brilliantly in the desert, and Author Young explains the performance better than anyone else so far. When Montgomery finally bowled him over, in the assault beginning at El Alamein, it was by sheer weight and numbers. Of Montgomery, Rommel wrote: "He risked nothing which was the least dpubtful, and any bold action was completely foreign to him." To which Rommel's chief of staff, Fritz Bayerlein, added: "I do not think General Patton would have let us get away so easily...
...Pawkiness. The Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...