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Index
Deutsches Afrika Korps 5
Chapter I 9
Background to War 9
The Desert 16
Uniforms 20
Terrain 21
Tactics 23
Erwin Rommel 28
The Italians 29
British Army 30
Rommel arrives to Africa 32
Tobruk - First Attack 41
Sollum June 1941 51
Crusader 1942 57
Strike at Gazala 82
Battle of Alam Halfa - First Alamein 98
Tunisia Campaign 1942 111
Allies atack to Tunis 126
German contrattack 131
The North-Western Front 138
The Tunisian Bridgehead 143
Army Group Afrika Tunisia 150
Mareth Line 156
The End in Afrika 160
Chronology 165
Tank Engagement at Sollum 167
Feldmarshall Erwin Rommel 170
Poland 1939Rommel acted as commander of the Führerbegleithauptquartier (Führer escort headquarters) 174
France 1940 174
Invasion of France and Belgium 174
Battle of Arras 175
Drive for English Channel 176
North Africa 1941–1943 177
Plot against Hitler 178
Rommel's death 180
Erwin Rommel as Tactician 182
Popular perception 184
Annexes 185
Panzer Tactics 185
Development of German Armor Tactics 188
The First Three Panzerdivisionen 190
First Experience in War 192
Armored Battle Groups or Kampfgruppen 192
Panzerbrigade 1944 193
Reorganization after Second World War 193
Maps 195
Deutsches Afrika Korps 1941-43 202
Bibliography 209
Index 211
Notes 212 Notes
[1] General Feldmarshall Erwin Rommel
[2] Sir Archibald Wavell
[3] Panzerkampfwagen III
[4] Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf C 5° Leichte Division/5° Panzerregiment/I Battalion/2° Company
[5] Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf D 5° Leichte Division/5° Panzerregiment/II Battalion/8° Company
[6] OKH: Oberkommando des Heeres
[7] A 105mm howitzer in action against Tobruk.
[8] Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf F 15° Panzer Division/Panzerregiment 8°/I Battalion/2° Company
[9] Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J 15° Division Panzer/Panzerregiment 8°/I Battalion/2° Company
[10] General Sir Alan Cunningha Comander 8° Army
[11] A British machine gun Bren on an anti-aircraft mounting in Tobruk
[12] British tank Valentine of 23° Armoured Brigade knocked in Ruweisat Ridge.
[13] South African troops in infantry positions along the Gazala Line watch from their trench as a neraby position comes to attack.
[14] General Ludwig Crüewell
[15] Eight Army officers. From left to right: Lt General Norrie (XXX Corps), Lt. General Ritchie (Eight Army) and Lt. General Gott (XIII Corps).
[16] British Bren carriers of the 9° Rifle Brigade watch the destruction of a supply dump from a distance during retreat from the Gazala Line
[17] Eight Army withdrawal and Rommel attack on Tobruk
[18] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger 111 Panzer Abteinlung 501° in the desert North Africa
[19] German Intelligence Service
[20] Tiger used by the commander of the 1st Platoon of the 1st Company of s.Pz.Abt. 501°.
[21] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I No 131 captured in Jebel Jaffa 21 April 1943
[22] Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (7.5cm) 10° Panzer Division/10° Motorcycle Battalion/5° Heavy Company
[23] 7.5cm Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausf F/8 10° Panzer Division/I Battalion/Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 242°
[24] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I s.Pz.Abt 504°, tank number 142
[25] Albert, Kesselring, Wilhelm Speidel, Hermann Göring
[26] Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J 3rd Platoon, 1st Company, s.Pz.Abt 504°
[27] 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schepper 21° Panzer Division/115° Artillery Regiment/3rd Battalion
[28] Leichter Gepanzerter Beobachtungskraftwagen 21° Panzer Division/115° Artillery Regiment
[29] Feldmarshal Erwin Rommel in Africa
[30] A memorial at the site of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's suicide outside of the town of Herrlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (west of Ulm).
[31] Erwin Rommel December 1943
[32] Panzerkampfwagen IV
[33] General der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian