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  • Rommel's vanguard fell on this skeletal enemy at Al-Uqayla, east of Ras Lanuf.

    Libya's history warns us of the dangers on the road to Ras Lanuf 2011

  • Nor were Rommel's assets confined to tanks: they included the Stuka dive bombers whose ability to lay on close air support for troops on the ground made them the Tornados and Rafales of their day.

    Libya's history warns us of the dangers on the road to Ras Lanuf 2011

  • Ineffective Turkish suzerainty followed by a brutal period of Italian colonisation, by Rommel's and Montgomery's tank battles, by a short-lived monarchy, and finally by 40 years of Gaddafi's fraudulent state without a state, has left Libya institutionally bereft.

    Libya: Gaddafi's destructive path | Editorial 2011

  • On the night of 23 October, Field Marshall Montgomery ordered his engineers into the Devil's Garden, the heavily mined stretch of land lying between the two forces, and clear a way for the tanks of the Eighth Army to approach Rommel's Afrika Korps.

    El Alamein's new desert battle as mine victims search for justice Jack Shenker in El Alamein 2010

  • He recounted that as a teenager he and his father would take the cart up the road to what was then a German Prisoner of War Camp -- Rommel's Afrika Korps, according to Mr. Tkach, to fetch the garbage to bring back to the farm to feed the pigs.

    Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Salem County, NJ 2010

  • A more appropriate analogy for current private contracting oversight would be how British Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden paraphrased Churchill's saying in North Africa, when the British were defeating the Italians before Rommel's arrival: Never in the field of human conflict was so much surrendered by so many to so few.

    David Isenberg: Contracting Oversight: Never Have So Few Surrendered So Much 2010

  • We have the work of historians citing the existence of an Arab SS legion waiting, at the rear guard of Rommel's army, for the order to descend on the Yishuv in order to exterminate the 500,000 Jews who had already settled there.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why We Remember 2010

  • He recounted that as a teenager he and his father would take the cart up the road to what was then a German Prisoner of War Camp -- Rommel's Afrika Korps, according to Mr. Tkach, to fetch the garbage to bring back to the farm to feed the pigs.

    Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Salem County, NJ 2010

  • We have the work of historians citing the existence of an Arab SS legion waiting, at the rear guard of Rommel's army, for the order to descend on the Yishuv in order to exterminate the 500,000 Jews who had already settled there.

    Why We Remember 2010

  • A more appropriate analogy for current private contracting oversight would be how British Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden paraphrased Churchill's saying in North Africa, when the British were defeating the Italians before Rommel's arrival: Never in the field of human conflict was so much surrendered by so many to so few.

    David Isenberg: Contracting Oversight: Never Have So Few Surrendered So Much 2010

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