As Operation Battleaxe raged on, British forces hurled wave after wave of Matilda and Crusader tanks at the Axis defenses—but the 88mm guns and the iron-willed leadership of Major Wilhelm Bach, the ...
JERUSALEM — Leading German novelist and political activist Stefan Heym died here Sunday of heart failure while on a lecture tour in Israel. He was 88. Heym, the dissident from the former East Germany, ...