Gradually the terrible sandstorm died last week. Life showed itself again on the Western Desert: herds of gazelles, swallows hurrying nowhere, vipers with lessons in camouflage, strange dry sand snailsand fighting men.
The storm had been more than a hiatus in the men's activities. Before it the British had prepared and begun a large-scale raid on the Germans who held Salûm and Halfáya ("Hellfire") Pass, just east of the Egyptian-Libyan border. The storm broke up the raid, disorganized the British, and gave the Germans time to devise and organize a vast counter-raid.
As soon as the hot southerly wind abated, the...
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