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Once again the fox was in flight. For three weeks, while General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cautiously poked at him, Erwin Rommel had crouched in the bottleneck of El Aghéila, holed up. Montgomery had been in no hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from...
Civil War. The day General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From the Valebit Mountains in Dalmatia a second force, called the Partisans of Lika, moved to meet them. From the northeast came a third army of Croat irregulars...
...time Rommel's lines were shattered, the three Partisan armies had joined forces, under a unified command, and re-christened themselves the "Army of National Liberation." They organized the first continuous front in this irregular war-an arc about 100 miles long running from Slunj to Sitnica-and moved westward, sweeping one village after another from the surprised Germans and the Fascist Ustachi...
...flight compared with the weary, eight-month-long, 1,500-mile retreat of the "Ten Thousand Greeks" under Xenophon in 401 B.C.; the 1,000-mile retreat of Charles X of Sweden from Yaroslavl to Warsaw in 1656. Rommel had fought a moderately successful rear-guard action, covering his trail with anti-tank guns and mortars. He had also been lucky. Cyrenaica's rainy season had slowed Montgomery's pursuit...
...again. Mudholes were drying up. Allied planes once more were in the air over Rommel's thinning columns, over El Agheila and over Tripoli. The question still was whether he could organize his haggard, battered Afrika Korps for a stand at the El Agheila bottleneck. Rommel might yet earn even more distinction...