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HHRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY «%S^ inc iniKuncivn [mmmimum <5S^.\!S*5l<C^ 31111011398219 1 •'./ Afrikakorpi 1 . ,^-? rv>rr- 3 1111 01139 8219 DATE DUE V AD n VV(!!!V AUG 2 9 1990 11990 V. ^ SEP APR i39£L 25200: iTOvo B9Q fl^l-dj DEC 6 M ai^o<r HEv 1 JAN 2 4 199t tlh i tf iS9T ___27J2eL. FEB &M> . JUN APR Ii95 I I — — 4K ^*f"c"«"-* H-AR 2 7 1998 OCT n 6 FEB? 7 2 )01 \ THE THIRD REICH Afrikakoipi By the Editors of Time-Life Books Alexandria, Virginia TIME am — Time-Life Books Inc. The Third Beich Other Publications: is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMERICAN COUNTRY The Time Inc. Book Company SERIES DIRECTOR:Thomas H. Flaherty VOYAGETHROUGH THE UNIVERSE SeriesAdministrator:Jane Edwin THETIME-LIFE GARDENER'S GUIDE President and ChiefExecutive Officer: Editorial StaffforAfrikakorps: MYSTERIES OFTHE UNKNOWN Keiso K. Sutton Designer: Raymond Ripper TIME FRAME President, Time Inc. Books Direct: PictureEditor:JaneA. Martin FIX ITYOURSELF ChristopherT. Linen THee^ntryEdWitooords:heStaedphen G. Hyslop, John Newton, FITNESS, HEALTH &. NUTRITION Time-Life Books Inc. SUCCESSFUL PARENTING Researcher: Robin Currie HEALTHY HOME COOKING EDITOR: George Constable Assistant Designer: Lorraine D. Rivard UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS Executive Editor: Ellen Phillips Copy Coordinator: CharlesJ. Hagner LIBRARY OF NATIONS DirectorofDesign: Louis Klein Picture Coordinator: Ruth Moss THE ENCHANTEDWORLD DirectorofEditorialResources: Phyllis K.Wise EditorialAssistant:Jayne A. L. Dover THE KODAK LIBRARY OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY DirectorofPhotographyandResearch: Special Contributors: Ronald H Bailey, GREAT MEALS IN MINUTES John Conrad Weiser Timothy Foote, Lydia Preston Hicks, Donald Dale THE CIVILWAR SPeRnEiSoIrDVEiNcTe:PrJeoshindeMn.ts:FaRhoebye,rtJr.M. DeScna, Paul R JDaacvkisdonS,. TThhoommsaosnA.(tLexetw)i;sM,aBrrtihaanLCe.ePoBhecakniknag,ton, CPOLLALNEECTTEOAR'RSTHLIBRARY OF THE Cn/ILWAR SVGBtoioelcewdezasPertrteme,iasnnCi,,udreJtnuMitaassnr:iyGtS.atPV.eTi.pDehoJberannamonehzLso,,eBJ,AaoinsSrd,etrpeBephohwnJei.nPtW.aaLK.Lra.dplan, MMEKdaaairlgtiegolniryienSalmDMieOutbpehrelpriIaihuntsyd,ieoTxOne)orsrbeilelGIlreevsesatrecehnl,:HMeilcghaaeRl Kohl, TTWTHHHHOOEEERMLEGOEDPLORIDOWCEDPAWOAREFCISROIFTIOALKINGDHTIMPROVEMENT TrevorLunn, SusanJ Maruyama, Robert H. CopyChief: Diane Ullius Smith Production:Celia Beattie For information on and a full description ofany NewProduct Development: Yuri Okuda, Donia Library: Louise D. F'orstall ofthe Time-Life Books series listed above, please ASunpnerSvtieseolre ofQuality Control:James King ComputerComposition: Gordon E Buck cRaelald1e-r80I0n-f6o2r1m-a7t0i2o6norwrite: (Manager), Deborah G. Tait, Monika D. Thayer, PUBLISHER:JosephJ. Ward Janet Barnes Syring, Lillian Daniels Time-Life CustomerService P.O. Box C-32068 Correspondents: Elisabeth Kraemer-Singh Richmond, Virginia 23261-2068 iBonnl, Christina Lieberman (New York), Maria VincenzaAloisi (Paris), Ann Natanson (Rome). Valuable assistance was also provided by: Elizabeth Brawn (New York), Christine Hinze (London), Nihal Tamraz (Cairo), Ann Wise (Rome). General Consultants AlightlyarmoredItalianM-13/40tank,servingwith ' 1990Time-Life Books Inc.All rights reserved. Col. John Ft. Elting, USA (Ret.), formerasso- General Erwin Rommel's Afrikakorps, churns No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any ciate professorat West Point, has written or across the rocky Libyan Desert. Dispatched toAf- form orby any electronic ormechanical means, editedsometwentybooks,includingSwords rica in February 1941 to shore up the Reich's fal- including infomiation storage and retrieval arounda Throne, The Superstrategists, and tneurminbgerIetadl,ianerpraarttincearlsl,yRsoumpmpelliedturanremdyhiisntoout-a dpeelv-imciesssioornsyfsrtoemmst,hewiptuhbloiustheprr,ioerxcwerpitttetnhat brief American Army Life, as well as Battles for legendaryfighting force that would challenge the passages may be quoted forreviews. Scandinavia in the Time-Life Books World British hold on the Middle East WarII series. Hewas chiefconsultant to the First printing. Printed in U.SA. Time-Life series, The Civil War. Published simultaneously in Canada School and library distribution by Silver Burden Williamson Murray is a professor of Euro- Company, Morristown, NewJersey 07960. peanmilitaryhistotyatOhioStateUniversity andhasbeenavisitingprofessorattheNaval TIME-LIFE is a trademark ofTimeWarnerInc. WarCollege. He has written numerous arti- U.SA. cles and books on military affairs, including Library ofCongress Cataloging in The Luftwaffe, 1933-1944, and The Change in Publication Data the European Balance ofPower, 1938-1939. This volume is one ofa series that chronicles Afrikakorps/by th—e editors ofTime-Life Books, He has also coedited the three-volume the rise and eventual fall ofNazi Germany Othi . p cm. (TheThird Reich) study, Military Effectiveness. books in the series include: Includes bibliographical references. Thess ISBN 0-8094-6983-9 — Fists ofSteel 1.World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns—Africa, Storming to Power North 2 Germany. Heer. Panzerarmeek—orps The \'ewOrder Atrika——History. 3.World War, 1939-1945 Cam- The Reachfor Empire paigns Africa, North. 4.Africa, North Lightning War Hisloiy—1882- WolfPacks I. Time-Life Hooks. II. Series. — Conquest ofthe Balkans D757.55A4A37 1990 940.5423 dc20 89-49109 Contents Bailing Out a Beleaguered Ally 1 7 2 Ilugffeit in a lea off land 51 3 Target: Tobruk 95 4 Days off Deciiion at El Alamein 137 ESSAYS Trie forging off a Deiert Legend 42 The Long Reach the Lethal SS off 86 A Miserable Place to Fight a War 129 "The Dead Are the Lucky Onei" 176 Acknowledgments 186 Picture Credits 186 Bibliography 187 Index 188 Strangers in (heir own land, Imi Libyans mjallabiya stand aside as panzers of Rommel's Afrikakorps advance against the British. * 1 * **<* A V

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HHRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY «%S^ inc iniKuncivn [mmmimum <5S^.\!S*5l<C^ 31111011398219 1 •'./ Afrikakorpi 1 . ,^-? rv>rr- 3 1111 01139 8219 DATE DUE V AD n VV(!!!V AUG 2 9 1990 11990 V. ^ SEP APR i39£L 25200: iTOvo B9Q fl^l-dj DEC 6 M ai^o<r HEv 1 JAN 2 4 199t tlh i tf iS9T ___27J2eL. FEB &M> . JUN APR Ii95 I I — — 4K ^*f"c"«"-* H-AR 2 7 1998 OCT n 6 FEB? 7 2 )01 \ THE THIRD REICH Afrikakoipi By the Editors of Time-Life Books Alexandria, Virginia TIME am — Time-Life Books Inc. The Third Beich Other Publications: is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMERICAN COUNTRY The Time Inc. Book Company SERIES DIRECTOR:Thomas H. Flaherty VOYAGETHROUGH THE UNIVERSE SeriesAdministrator:Jane Edwin THETIME-LIFE GARDENER'S GUIDE President and ChiefExecutive Officer: Editorial StaffforAfrikakorps: MYSTERIES OFTHE UNKNOWN Keiso K. Sutton Designer: Raymond Ripper TIME FRAME President, Time Inc. Books Direct: PictureEditor:JaneA. Martin FIX ITYOURSELF ChristopherT. Linen THee^ntryEdWitooords:heStaedphen G. Hyslop, John Newton, FITNESS, HEALTH &. NUTRITION Time-Life Books Inc. SUCCESSFUL PARENTING Researcher: Robin Currie HEALTHY HOME COOKING EDITOR: George Constable Assistant Designer: Lorraine D. Rivard UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS Executive Editor: Ellen Phillips Copy Coordinator: CharlesJ. Hagner LIBRARY OF NATIONS DirectorofDesign: Louis Klein Picture Coordinator: Ruth Moss THE ENCHANTEDWORLD DirectorofEditorialResources: Phyllis K.Wise EditorialAssistant:Jayne A. L. Dover THE KODAK LIBRARY OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY DirectorofPhotographyandResearch: Special Contributors: Ronald H Bailey, GREAT MEALS IN MINUTES John Conrad Weiser Timothy Foote, Lydia Preston Hicks, Donald Dale THE CIVILWAR SPeRnEiSoIrDVEiNcTe:PrJeoshindeMn.ts:FaRhoebye,rtJr.M. DeScna, Paul R JDaacvkisdonS,. TThhoommsaosnA.(tLexetw)i;sM,aBrrtihaanLCe.ePoBhecakniknag,ton, CPOLLALNEECTTEOAR'RSTHLIBRARY OF THE Cn/ILWAR SVGBtoioelcewdezasPertrteme,iasnnCi,,udreJtnuMitaassnr:iyGtS.atPV.eTi.pDehoJberannamonehzLso,,eBJ,AaoinsSrd,etrpeBephohwnJei.nPtW.aaLK.Lra.dplan, MMEKdaaairlgtiegolniryienSalmDMieOutbpehrelpriIaihuntsyd,ieoTxOne)orsrbeilelGIlreevsesatrecehnl,:HMeilcghaaeRl Kohl, TTWTHHHHOOEEERMLEGOEDPLORIDOWCEDPAWOAREFCISROIFTIOALKINGDHTIMPROVEMENT TrevorLunn, SusanJ Maruyama, Robert H. CopyChief: Diane Ullius Smith Production:Celia Beattie For information on and a full description ofany NewProduct Development: Yuri Okuda, Donia Library: Louise D. F'orstall ofthe Time-Life Books series listed above, please ASunpnerSvtieseolre ofQuality Control:James King ComputerComposition: Gordon E Buck cRaelald1e-r80I0n-f6o2r1m-a7t0i2o6norwrite: (Manager), Deborah G. Tait, Monika D. Thayer, PUBLISHER:JosephJ. Ward Janet Barnes Syring, Lillian Daniels Time-Life CustomerService P.O. Box C-32068 Correspondents: Elisabeth Kraemer-Singh Richmond, Virginia 23261-2068 iBonnl, Christina Lieberman (New York), Maria VincenzaAloisi (Paris), Ann Natanson (Rome). Valuable assistance was also provided by: Elizabeth Brawn (New York), Christine Hinze (London), Nihal Tamraz (Cairo), Ann Wise (Rome). General Consultants AlightlyarmoredItalianM-13/40tank,servingwith ' 1990Time-Life Books Inc.All rights reserved. Col. John Ft. Elting, USA (Ret.), formerasso- General Erwin Rommel's Afrikakorps, churns No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any ciate professorat West Point, has written or across the rocky Libyan Desert. Dispatched toAf- form orby any electronic ormechanical means, editedsometwentybooks,includingSwords rica in February 1941 to shore up the Reich's fal- including infomiation storage and retrieval arounda Throne, The Superstrategists, and tneurminbgerIetadl,ianerpraarttincearlsl,yRsoumpmpelliedturanremdyhiisntoout-a dpeelv-imciesssioornsyfsrtoemmst,hewiptuhbloiustheprr,ioerxcwerpitttetnhat brief American Army Life, as well as Battles for legendaryfighting force that would challenge the passages may be quoted forreviews. Scandinavia in the Time-Life Books World British hold on the Middle East WarII series. Hewas chiefconsultant to the First printing. Printed in U.SA. Time-Life series, The Civil War. Published simultaneously in Canada School and library distribution by Silver Burden Williamson Murray is a professor of Euro- Company, Morristown, NewJersey 07960. peanmilitaryhistotyatOhioStateUniversity andhasbeenavisitingprofessorattheNaval TIME-LIFE is a trademark ofTimeWarnerInc. WarCollege. He has written numerous arti- U.SA. cles and books on military affairs, including Library ofCongress Cataloging in The Luftwaffe, 1933-1944, and The Change in Publication Data the European Balance ofPower, 1938-1939. This volume is one ofa series that chronicles Afrikakorps/by th—e editors ofTime-Life Books, He has also coedited the three-volume the rise and eventual fall ofNazi Germany Othi . p cm. (TheThird Reich) study, Military Effectiveness. books in the series include: Includes bibliographical references. Thess ISBN 0-8094-6983-9 — Fists ofSteel 1.World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns—Africa, Storming to Power North 2 Germany. Heer. Panzerarmeek—orps The \'ewOrder Atrika——History. 3.World War, 1939-1945 Cam- The Reachfor Empire paigns Africa, North. 4.Africa, North Lightning War Hisloiy—1882- WolfPacks I. Time-Life Hooks. II. Series. — Conquest ofthe Balkans D757.55A4A37 1990 940.5423 dc20 89-49109 Contents Bailing Out a Beleaguered Ally 1 7 2 Ilugffeit in a lea off land 51 3 Target: Tobruk 95 4 Days off Deciiion at El Alamein 137 ESSAYS Trie forging off a Deiert Legend 42 The Long Reach the Lethal SS off 86 A Miserable Place to Fight a War 129 "The Dead Are the Lucky Onei" 176 Acknowledgments 186 Picture Credits 186 Bibliography 187 Index 188 Strangers in (heir own land, Imi Libyans mjallabiya stand aside as panzers of Rommel's Afrikakorps advance against the British. * 1 * **<* A V

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