Home Archive Not Talking about Tobruk. Not Talking about Tobruk. By Tico Times. August 11, 2006. Share. Facebook. Twitter. ... where it could be dispatched by rifle fire. But it was a slow business, ...

Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces.

At 3 a.m. the roar of a barrage laid down by Tobruk’s defenders broke out at the western end of the 30-mile defense perimeter; Polish troops from the garrison started a diversion there.

Tom Pritchard, who has died aged 102, was believed to be the last Australian soldier to serve with the Desert Rats during the siege of Tobruk. In January 1941, Australian troops overwhelmed ...

Protesters broke into Libya's parliament in Tobruk on Friday evening and set a fire in front of the building to express their anger towards Libya's warring political parties, witnesses told Reuters.