HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tank Force, Operation Torch, Total War
18 Nov 2016
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From el-alamein to torch: the allied alliance begins to. We left off with rommel"s forces knocking on the doors of egypt, but facing a more organized and resolute british strategy on the ground there. Hitler hoped that pushing east through egypt and seizing oil supplies at suez, the problem of. Britain"s already tenuous hold on its empire would be thereby further weakened, and a stepping stone for germany to attack the ussr from the south would be procured. The fuhrer turned toward his most successful field commander, the desert fox/rommel. He was regarded as a tactical and strategic master whose name struck terror into the hearts of. British commanders after his rousing victory over commonwealth troops at gazala and tobruk. The german field marshal hoped to quickly advance to tunisia, and suez, and in the process to destroy or completely incapacitate the british eighth army and drive it off the continent.
