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...Allied attack should be made at any new point, it would be, not the Second Front, but only another front. Yet it might save Egypt from Rommel and prevent an eventual junction between Rommel and the German armies now in Russia...
...leader of two "brilliant retreats," from Dunkirk and Burma. Now in Egypt, he commands forces which cannot retreat again without losing all that they defend. At El Alamein his back is to the wall in a theater where three soldiers with greater reputations- Wavell, Cunningham, Auchinleck-failed to beat Rommel...
Probably Franco would not attack until, and if, Marshal Rommel reached Suez in the threatening showdown fight in North Africa (see p. 24). Then, if both Rommel and Franco were successful, the Mediterranean would be plugged at both ends and the United Nations would be given another lesson in Axis cooperation...
...horse could not be kept from the front. He flew west into the desert, changed into an armored car, got within four miles of the famous "Hill of Jesus," had to be argued out of going to the edge of no man's land. Through binoculars he saw Rommel's fortifications, watched Messerschmitts fighting with Spitfires two miles away...
...position that no Prussian likes, or wants to keep. He is on the defensive. As long as the Russian war holds the best of the German Army on the Eastern Front, as long as that hooligan and instinctive soldier Rommel needs help in Egypt, Rundstedt, the carefully cultivated flower of the old German military system, has to hold off the enemy in the north. Germany's most respected soldier, her soundest staff officer, her No. 1 field commander, he has to sit behind his bunkers and parry the enemy's thrusts. He may never again lead an offensive...