Outcome: The Australian, British and Polish divisions under siege in Tobruk were twice attacked by Rommel's forces, and both times retained control of the Libyan port. The siege was lifted after ...

TASS/. The Russian Pacific Fleet’s Varyag missile cruiser and Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate have called at the Libyan Mediterranean port of Tobruk, where they will stay for several days ...

Documentary examination of the battle for Tobruk in the Second World War. British empire troops assault the German Afrika Korps in North Africa in order to win control over the seaport city of ...

The port of Tobruk, 160km inside Cyrenaica, fell to Australian troops on 21 January after a 12-day siege; 27,000 prisoners were taken. Graziani now ordered a full-scale evacuation of Cyrenaica ...

Tom Pritchard, Australia's last Rat of Tobruk, has died aged 102. The World War II veteran was the the last direct link with the 14,000 Australian servicemen who held the Libyan port of Tobruk ...