Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his retreat. Near by, the moonlight made a complicated and shadowy apparition out of a wrecked Mark III tank, glinted on a German chocolate tin and a bloodied German helmet...
...uproar of British guns and high-domed Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
From afar the communication lines of both sides ran like threads of a web into the desert battlefield of Egypt. From Italy and Crete, Axis transports on the sea and in the air, plagued by Allied planes, tried to rush reinforcements and supplies. Across French Equatorial Africa tortuous lines fed aid to Montgomery; men of De Gaulle hacked new routes through the jungle. U.S. and British freighters rounded the Cape, climbed the side of East Africa and plowed into the Red Sea. The web covered half the world...
...Africa Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...
...piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line. Hell broke over El Alamein: from hundreds of hidden positions artillery laid down the heaviest barrage yet seen in the desert. After six hours infantrymen moved toward the Germans' shattered positions. R.A.F. bombers and fighters attacked with the ground forces. The advance units found their way through their own minefields, marched gingerly into the German fields. Soon lights began to twinkle close to the ground: they were guttering flames in gasoline tins, marking alleys through the German fields for the main body of troops and tanks...