The released British prisoner climbed in the desert heat with a note in his hand. The hot place he had reached was Bir Hachéim, a four-mile-square, mine-necklaced plateau in the Libyan desert. The note was addressed to General Pierre Koenig, the Free French commander of this southern anchor of the Allied line. It was from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and it said: Surrender, or suffer the consequences.
Pierre Koenig, tall, blue-eyed, blond, German of name and physique but French as only a Foreign Legionnaire can be, read the note. The smile he...
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