On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

For his work in Libya, Adolf Hitler had upped tough Tank Expert General Erwin Rommel to the grade of Field Marshal, Second Class. It was the second time in a year that Field Marshal Rommel had ...

General Bernard Montgomery, in a letter to Sir Alan Brooke, 6 March 1943 After El Alamein, the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel withdrew to the west with the 8th Army in hot but fruitless pursuit.

Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery - 'Monty' - led the British 8th Army in North Africa against German forces led by Erwin Rommel. The decisive battle of the desert campaign was at El Alamein.