Selasa, 18 April 2017

Sand Trap: Serving in the Afrika Korps

A lifelong adventurer steered into unexpected trouble while serving in the Afrika Corps. DURING THE 1930s, Austrian travel writer Max Reisch earned fame for exploits such as motorcycling from Vienna to Bombay. In the Wehrmacht, his mechanical prowess got him assigned as a transport engineer, running a 900-vehicle Afrika Korps motor pool. A deft scrounger …

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