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Hi,
Fantasizing a bit now, I'd like to see a movie (or a series, don't mind) roughly reproducing the tone of the book "Tobruk" by Peter Fitzsimons, on that battle. Sort of an Aussie "Private Ryan".
We are too small a market though, so it can't happen, but in my little daydream the themes would be the Australian style of mateship in war, and the strange contrast between the extreme harshness of the conditions and the last echoes of chivalry ever seen in modern warfare.
Rommel was an honorable general, and treated prisoners well. He was eventually forced by Hitler to take poison.
Back in "The Pacific", a sobering book which shows what a shock it was for young untried troops to carry out an opposed landing against a dug-in and fanatical enemy, is "One Square Mile of Hell - Tarawa" by John Wukovits.
Cheers
Last edited by GeoffW1; 20-04-2010 at 10:25 PM.
Reason: forgot the ladies
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