@wittmann:
The Italians are eating pasta and chatting to the ladies. The Germans are alone in the battle. (Probably felt like that most of the war anyway!)
HA!
You know, I like to watch these WW2 documentaries and keep getting amazed at accounts of the early part of the war in Africa. When it started out, the Italians had 250,000 troops in Libya plus another 100,000 in Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. The British had a mere 60,000 troops stationed in Egypt with small garrisons in Palestine and Aden. That’s a 5-1 advantage! Egypt and the Suez should have been ruled by Italy. Instead, Ethiopia was liberated, Italian Somaliland and Eritrea was taken over and the Italians were driven back across Libya with heavy casualties and lots of prisoners. Pathetic.