Matthew X wrote: > > There's an interesting book about a behind the lines operation that may > have stopped Rommel breaking through at Al Alemain. Some guy > called,'poppy.' and a few local arabs set off a huge gas depot and the > German tanks ran out of fuel.This is from ...
That's Popski. Real name Vladimir Peniakov. A British subject who formed a kind of Rat Patrol to operate behind German lines in the desert. In his own memoirs, Popski's Private Army, he does not claim to have had such a significant effect on major operations... Marc
