3月10日: 沙漠之狐败走北非战场(视频)

Until the British surprise assault at El Alamein, Nazi Field Marshall Erwin Rommel had consistently out-maneuvered Allied forces in North Africa with uncanny cunning. But Britain's Field Marshall Montgomery, promoted after a shake-up by Winston Churchill, crippled Rommel's Africa Corps at El Alamein. Ordered by Adolf Hitler to choose victory or death, Rommel chose retreat, after 24 hours of hopeless battle. Had he ignored Hitler's orders completely, orders revealing, in Rommel's words - a madman - his Afrika Corps might have avoided later critical defeats in Egypt and Tunisia. As it stood, the much admired Desert Fox was forced to leave North Africa for good on March 10, 1943.