As the Germans sweep all before them in Europe, the Anglo-Australian garrison in the small town of Tobruk, Libya, inspires the world by resisting the most celebrated German general of the Second World War.
Rommel's Afrika Korps sweep forward to threaten Cairo and the Suez Canal. At a tiny railway halt called El Alamein, the Allied Eighth Army fights a battle that will transfix the world and help turn the tide of the WW11.