By Gordon Landsborough
'Operation contract' began as a pretty uncomplicated plan to ruin Rommel's bomb-proof oil-storage tanks at Tobruk at the eve of Alamein. yet, catching the mind's eye of GHQ, the plan snowballed alarmingly. in addition to a commando unit led by way of the plan's originator, Colonel Haselden, it got here to incorporate the RAF, the Royal military, the Marines and of the most important destroyers within the Mediterranean.
It was once a bold try to rob Rommel at one stroke of the 3 necessities to luck in North Africa - oil, a provide port and delivery. however the calculated dangers started to out stability the probabilities of good fortune whilst it appeared that each dockyard employee in Alexandria and each cocktail-party-goer in Cairo knew in regards to the raid earlier than the officials and males set out. The operation went on, and have become a tragedy of slaughtered males and sunken ships.
Tobruk Commando is a vintage experience tale of the second one global conflict. The fast-moving motion centres at the small commando of fellows which set out secretly in the course of the deserts in the direction of Tobruk. After a protracted trip around the barren region sand, they arrived disguised as a gaggle of POWs and their German captors. Expertly written, it is a very good story of heroic bluff and a enterprise to check the braveness and nerves of the hardest men.
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