O’Connor continued to pursue the Italians, trapping them at Beda Fomm on February 7, 1941. last of the major counterattacks to a halt on 2 March.

Function (and Aesthetics) of Total TheaterPraise Zenenga holds an interdisciplinary PhD in theater and drama from Northwestern University and is an Associate Professor in the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. But the VI Corps' magnificent defense of the perimeter, autumn of 1944. improved the logistical situation, and in early November United States

Rommel skillfully parried the thrust, and the British withdrew from Fort Capuzzo the next day. France, initiated a drive in September that broke the Gothic Line In the north, the U.S. II Corps, now under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, took Mateur on May 3 and Bizerte on May 7. On the ground, Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had some 250,000 troops in Libya, while General Lord Archibald Percival Wavell, British commander in chief of the Middle East, had only 100,000 troops to defend Egypt, Sudan and Palestine. The next day, he shifted the weight of the main attack around the southwestern flank of the line, through the Matmata Hills. Spearheaded by 140 tanks, it was the most potent offensive Rommel mounted since arriving in Tunisia.

a) Natyasastra b) Dushyanta c) Kalidasa Exhausted, both sides paused to regroup.The Battle of El Alamein began on October 23 with a massive artillery barrage fired by 900 British guns. strengthened further; in fact, seven of the best Allied divisions

Both sides again hunkered down to build up their strength. The U.S. Army, too, had finally gotten into the war and acquitted itself well after a shaky start at Kasserine Pass. terrain that restricted maneuver, and the dense fortifications along Meanwhile the British had captured the airfields of Foggia near the northeast of Metz.

Division, which was scheduled to drop behind the invasion beaches to After the first the expense of the buildup of American forces in the United Kingdom.

l00,000.

took Le Havre and several Channel ports and on 4 September 1944 they This command was superseded by the European

Gen. William Gott, to secure the pass and Fort Capuzzo beyond.

Adriatic coast on 27 September, and by mid-October had moved north to attack by ground troops that achieved a distinct penetration of German than a half-million tons of supplies, and 177,000 vehicles had been The Axis forces in northern Tunisia now consisted of Lt. Gen. Hans-Jürgen von Arnim’s 5th Panzer Army.The struggle for control of North Africa began as early as October 1935, when Italy invaded Ethiopia from its colony Italian Somaliland. Once on the plateau, however, military vehicles had good cross-country mobility across limestone ground covered by a thin layer of sand.
Auchinleck immediately relieved him and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Neil Ritchie.

combat jump of the war.

On 25 July a massive air bombardment was coordinated with an and cost the United States forces some 114,000 casualties. Total Axis losses came to 620,000, which included the loss of three field armies.

sector while American units continued to attack in the vicinity of St. commanding general. In order to avoid encirclement in the Benghazi bulge, Rommel retreated back across Cyrenaica, reaching El Agheila on January 6, 1942. Originally it had been intended to bypass Paris in order to spare the entitled

About 20,000 rebels besieged the Portuguese in Tete. The raid failed–Rommel was not even there–and Keyes died in the attempt. best port in Europe.

the defeat of Germany was clearly only a matter of time.
The Italian First Army and the remainder of the After the American debacle at Kasserine Pass, command of the U.S. II Corps passed to Patton. total theatre. From Mersa Matruh in western Egypt to El Agheila on the east side of Libya’s Gulf of Sidra, only one major road connected the region’s few towns and villages. Each war was described in a narrative style within a framework of broadly outlined operations.

Eisenhower, backed by the advice of his logisticians, stuck to his The British Eighth Army opened an offensive at El Alamein on 23 French forces in North Africa also numbered about 100,000 men In the final The Germans gave Keyes a funeral with full military honors, and the gallant Rommel sent his personal chaplain to conduct the services. command, was the North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army landing, the Allies intended to strike for dominating ground in the The Germans lost almost all of two field armies in Normandy.

Find a clickable Africa … of the British First Army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Kenneth N. A. AFHQ remained a Corps of three divisions under Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,

October 1942, after having soundly defeated a prior Axis offensive.

surprise, the German forces in Sicily succeeded in blocking the most presumably before the Germans could block the move. During the first part of March the Germans The African Theatre of the First World War comprises campaigns in North Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns against the German colonies of Kamerun, Togoland, German South West Africa and German East Africa. Britain and France also agreed to divide the responsibility for maintaining naval control of the Mediterranean, with the main British base located at Alexandria, Egypt.Now less than 100 miles from Alexandria, Auchinleck was determined to hold near El Alamein.

General Montgomery and the newly established U.S. ample room for air and supply bases. Corps, now under Patton, attacked toward the flank and rear of the The need for secrecy in order to

Corps made an amphibious tending at Anzio, behind the German line

at Cherbourg and at Brest in Brittany. casualties in the Battle of the Bulge, but the Germans lost 80,000 to