North Africa's Forgotten War

Britain and Germany turned North Africa into hell on earth. While Europe burned, four African nations

became the graveyard for over 300,000 soldiers who never asked to fight there. Egypt,

Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. The desert swallowed them whole.

Winston Churchill called it a sideshow. Tell that to the families. The Afrika Korps

rolled into Libya in 1941. Rommel, the Desert Fox, brought German efficiency

to African sand. Britain needed the Suez Canal. Germany wanted oil. Nobody asked the

Africans. In Egypt, entire villages got caught between artillery barrages.

Families woke up to find tanks parked in their olive groves. Children learned to recognize the