The war in the west is over, France decisively beaten and Great Britain pushed into the sea at Dunkirk. Seizing what he considers to be a good opportunity, the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, orders the invasion of British-controlled Egypt, and in turn watches as his army is beaten back from Egypt and Italian Libya. Although planning for the upcoming invasion of the Soviet Union is well underway, Hitler answers his ally's call for help, and sends a small force of tanks to counter the British. The are to be commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, a brilliant tactician whose exploits in the deserts of North Africa will earn him a new nickname, the ... Desert Fox |