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After so many evil tidings, the news looked a little better. Germany's Rommel had chased the broken, retreating British 325 miles in eleven days, had rammed his armored spearheads down the coastal desert from Matrûh, taking the flyspeck towns on the railroad to Alexandria like peas ripped from a pod. Now for four days Rommel had not advanced...
...Rommel was reported massing strong forces of anti-tank guns and showed no signs of withdrawal, despite his difficult supply problem and the heavy pounding he was taking from...
Though a lull continued in the main battle for Egypt, British ground and air patrols hammered relentlessly at the hooked, 55-mile line west of El Alamein, where Marshal Erwin Rommel's German Africa Corps was stalled within 65 miles of the Alexandria Naval Base...
...Goebbels relegated another remark of Marshal Rommel to the inside pages. The Marshal had also said: "We suffered extremely heavy losses...
Later, at the dead center of the stifling Libyan desert, he learned that a single can of beer can be worth its weight in gold. Reynolds' hard, racy report of what it is like to be stuck in the middle of one of General Rommel's blitzes is the best piece of reporting in the book. Almost as good is his dithyramb on Russia...