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More than that, the fall of Egypt would be a threat to the entire Russian front, for the eastern European front extends in fact from Murmansk down through the Caucasus to the wreckage of Matr...
Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, El Adem, Acroma. Germany's Erwin Rommel was 200 miles to the east, rolling into Matr...
...mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which he was rescued by a British torpedo plane and taken to Matr...
First Day. He knew that the British were mounting an attack. Though the British had used great caution, Axis reconnaissance had for seven days spotted perhaps two divisions of Indian infantry, scattered thinly and on foot, making its blistering way toward the frontier from Matrúh, 150 miles inside Egypt. General Rommel knew that so much infantry does not move so far so fast in the face of such hardships unless a real attack is contemplated...
...strategic loss was severe, and last week the British felt the full force of that loss. British war vessels, trying to cooperate in the Syrian adventure (see p. 28) as they had along the Libyan littoral, took a pasting from the air. So did Matrûh, the British base of operations in Egypt's Western Desert. So did Alexandria and To bruch and Haifa. The blow to home morale was heavy; the first airborne invasion of an island was not easy for islanders to for get. But the biggest shock was the expense of losing Crete...