For two years, the Afrika Korps repeatedly drove the British Eighth Army back across the deserts of North Africa. The fall of ...

Operation Flipper sent British commandos deep behind Axis lines in Libya to strike German command facilities and, if possible ...

An American M3 tank during training exercises at Fort Knox, 1942. These tanks were some of the first used by American forces in WWII. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. led three M3 tanks with American ...

Manfred Rommel, who has died aged 84, was the only son of the "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel and a witness to the German commander's last moments; after the war he forged a remarkable friendship with the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's favorite commander Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in World War Two, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from ...