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Originally Posted by GeoffW1
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.
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Now that would be great!
What a fantastic book that was.