Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onto the French plain and take up what an Allied headquarters spokesman called "Monty's kind of a war." By now, that "Monty kind of a war" distresses the Germans as much as it delights the British. It means the kind of war he fought on the open desert of North Africa: careful, precise preparation, control of the air, a murderous blow with every weapon in the lockers of his armor. Eccentric, unorthodox, picturesque Monty is the military idol of his country...
Enough dust swirled over the tank-churned roads of Normandy to remind ex-Desert Fox Erwin Rommel of Africa. But there the resemblance ended. There was no room among the copses, apple orchards, and hedge-crossed fields of Calvados for the great sweeps of "land battleships" that Rommel had used in the wastes of Libya...
...hour Attack manages to give a remarkably clear picture of the whole task of invading bejungled beaches. Not even the great Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943) has made so articulate the tremendous collaboration of men and machines which is required to put fighters in position and to keep them there. No film except Tarawa (TIME, March 20) has given keener images of what jungle fighting is like. Attack's images of vast messiness and spine-cracking effort as men move tanks, guns and ammunition from the beach into the jungle's boggy fantasia are even more impressive...
This was the story, outlined by Winston Churchill (see International) and long suppressed by the Cairo censor, of a Greek Army mutiny in the Egyptian desert...
...desert camp mutiny flared. The disgruntled Greeks swiftly took control from officers loyal to the Cairo regime. Sternly British General Sir Bernard Paget ordered the mutineers to lay down their arms, submit to authority. The Greeks argued that they were merely staging a political demonstration. The British said that mixing politics with soldiering was a breach of discipline. When words failed, General Paget moved up a British armored force, issued an ultimatum...