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...Russia that temporary revivals of Nazi power have appeared. Nor is it the first time since 1939-or even the first time since the close of the Chamberlain administration-that the British have openly expressed a lack of confidence in the conduct of the war. But while Rommel had the English with their backs to the Mediterranean so often that both sides were becoming bored, he had never before finally and conclusively pushed them into it. And although the Soviet counter-offensive had frequently stalled and even receded momentarily, the German counter-counter-offensive has never threatened so important...
...sure enough, the shifty Rommel came to clip his thorn. He came with tanks, with a bee-swarm of dive-bombers...
Pierre Koenig and his 3,000 Parisians, Bretons, Moroccans and Hitler-hating Germans settled down to wait for the inevitable. It was inevitable that Field Marshal Rommel, having bypassed Bir Hachéim in the expectation that it would be a pushover, only to find it a stubborn thorn, would devote his full fury to the place. Every day for ten days there had been attacks by Italian troops, stiffened by a few Germans. Every day Koenig's band had thrown the attacks back with the old French favorite, the 75-mm. cannon...
...from a field which they called Tramride. Grimly, they flew back again and renamed it Tramraid. Their job was to cut Axis supply columns, and it was urgent. They had to try to stave off the fall of Bir Hachéin for, if that hot spot fell, Rommel would have clear lines of communications for an advance on Tobruk...
...though these pilots burned a black belt of gutted hulks across the desert, they noticed that the main German force was getting nearer, swinging north and east, splitting, opening like a jaw. Things seemed to be getting worse. A huge tank battle was developing, and Rommel seemed to be forcing his way north to the coast. The German High Command announced that the desert fighting was finally taking "a favorable course" for the Axis...