The besieged town of Tobruk, isolated by Rommel's advance in March 1941, held out against repeated assaults until it was finally overwhelmed in June 1942. This is a unique and dramatic view of Britain’s efforts to hold the strategically important bastion in Libya. It is a close up view not only of the daily routine of individual soldiers combating tedium, privation, and superbly organized enemy forces but of the campaign as a whole, with its strategic and logistical involvements.