Episode 117-Tobruk and Iraq

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Posted On January 11, 2015

Rommel is ready to have another crack at Tobruk, but Berlin is focused on Operation Barbarossa. Yet, Rommel gets permission to move ahead and finish off the British holdout. Meanwhile, Wavell’s dire prediction about the Middle East starts to come true as elements of the Iraqi Government side with the Axis.

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