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MORTIMER, Gavin. Kill Rommel! Operation Flipper 1941. 80p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Osprey, 2014. ISBN: 9781472801098.

In November 1941 a mixed party of Commandos and SBS men were landed by submarine to assassinate Erwin Rommel on the eve of Operation Crusader intended to drive the Germans and Italians back across the Western Desert. The operation proved a fiasco, but lessons were learned.

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Battle of the Mediterranean: German Involvement; Special Service Units; The Commandos;

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