Rommel's Desert War

Rommel’s Desert War: The Afrika Korps in North Africa

In 1942, Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” and his Afrika Korps engaged in a series of battles in the North African desert. Marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, the Axis campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal’s baton.

By fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the two battles of…