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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 62-Failure, Failure Everywhere

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Marshall Graziani FINALLY moves into Egypt, but then stops. Gen. De Gaulle is in place to take Dakar in West Africa. Finally, a quick look at the Italian Navy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Audible.com. By now I'm sure you're aware of the

0:05.6

details. You can go to my website, www.WorldWorth2Podcast.net, click on the

0:10.3

Audible link, sign up for a free 30-day trial membership and get a free

0:14.6

audio book. You can keep the membership, not keep the membership, even though they

0:18.9

do have different plans to suit your needs. I've been a member for just over

0:23.4

two years now and I absolutely love it. So I'm gonna make a recommendation but

0:27.5

obviously you can get what you want. And if you do sign up for the membership

0:31.2

and you don't plan on keeping it, make sure you look around first because as a

0:35.7

member you get a 30% discount on all their purchases. So that's gonna play into

0:40.7

my recommendation today. So this time I would like to recommend the book to

0:45.2

Brooke by Peter Fitzsimmons. I know we're not there yet in the desert war. It

0:50.1

doesn't start until April 1941 when I think about 14,000 Australian forces are

0:56.3

left behind and they're told in about eight weeks reinforcements and supplies

1:00.7

will come. Well, those eight weeks turning to eight months where they have to

1:04.6

hold off General Rommel in the Africa Corps and they do an amazing job. So it's a

1:09.5

story about the story of Tobruk. It's stories about the man inside of Tobruk

1:14.7

and it's a story about Rommel. So you learn a lot about him as well as what's

1:18.4

going on in Berlin and London. So it's a really good book. You should check it out.

1:22.4

So that's my official recommendation. So now here's my unofficial

1:27.8

recommendation. If you do sign up for the membership and you're only going to

1:31.2

keep it for 30 days, also check out, sorry, that's my daughter in the background.

1:35.6

She refuses to leave. Also check out another title unottable. It's called

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