Gladiators Of World War II - The Desert Rats (2005) Source...............: DVD5 Output...............: DVDR *PAL* Rls Date.............: 2006-01-17 DVD Date.............: 2005-02-14 Genre................: Documentary Release Size.........: 62x50mb Runtime..............: 55 Min Series...............: 4 Of 13 Discs ????????????????????????????? ? PLOT SUMMARY ? ????????????????????????????? English 21st July 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed the7th Armoured Division: Dear Desert Rats! May your glory never fade! May your laurels never fade! May the memory of this glorious pilgrimage of war which you have made from Alamein, via the Baltic, to Berlin never die! It is a march unsurpassed in the history of war. The legend of the Desert Rats began with the destruction of the Italian 10th Army in 1940. When Nazi General Erwin Rommel arrived in Libya with his Afrika Korps, the ebb and flow of desert warfare pitted the two great forces against each other. As part of the 8th Army under General Bernard Montgomery, the Desert Rats played a key role in the crucial battle at El Alamein which forced the Afrika Korps into retreat. On the 11th May 1943, the Axis forces in North Africa finally surrendered, and the desert war was over. After four years of fighting the veterans were still not finished. They fought their way across Europe from D-Day to the surrender of Berlin, with the spirit and determination that made them some of the most famous Gladiators in the British army. Swedish Den 21 juli 1945 h÷ll den brittiske premiΣrministern Winston Churchill tal till den 7:e brittiska stridsvagnsdivisionen: KΣra ÷kenrσttor, mσ er Σra stΣndigt lysa i strσlglans. Mσ era lagrar aldrig vissna. Mσ minnet av denna Σrorika pilgrimsfΣrd, som ni ha fullbordat frσn el-Alamein till ╓stersj÷n och Berlin aldrig d÷. En marsch som efter vad jag kan bed÷ma med ledning av mina studier i historien stσr o÷vertrΣffad i hela krigshistorien. Legenden om ÷kenrσttorna startade med utplσningen av den 10:e italienska armen 1940. NΣr den tyska Afrikakσren under general Erwin Rommel sattes in i Libyen b÷ljade ÷kenkriget fram och tillbaka mellan de bσda stora styrkorna. Som en del av den 8:e brittiska armen under general Bernard Montgomery spelade ÷kenrσttorna en stor roll i det avg÷rande slaget om el-Alamein, vΣndpunkten i Nordafrika, dΣr axelmakterna tvingades till retrΣtt. Den 11 maj 1943 kapitulerade de sista tyska och italienska styrkorna i Nordafrika och ÷kenkriget var slut. Efter tre σrs oavbrutet hσrda strider var det Σndσ inte slutet f÷r ÷kenrσttorna. De kΣmpade sig genom Europa frσn D-dagen till Berlins fall med en kampgl÷d och viljestyrka som gjort dem till nσgra av de mest ber÷mda soldaterna i den brittiska armen. DVD FEATURES AUDIO SUBTITLES [ ] English 6.1 DTS [X] Swedish [ ] English 5.1 [X] Norweigan [X] English 2.0 [X] Danish [ ] Swedish 5.1 [X] Finnish [ ] Swedish 2.0 [ ] English [ ] Spanish 5.1 [ ] Icelandic [ ] Spanish 2.0 [ ] French [ ] Other: [ ] Spanish [ ] German ASPECT RATIO [ ] Slovenia [ ] Polish [ ] 2.35:1 [ ] Czech [ ] 1.85:1 [ ] Russian [X] 4:3 [ ] Dutch [ ] 16:9 [ ] Greek [ ] Italia VIDEO [ ] Turkish [ ] Arabic [X] Untouched [ ] Hebrew [ ] Re-encoded [ ] Portogues [ ] Passes [5] DVD EXTRAS MENU [X] All included [X] Untouched [ ] Partial strip [ ] Striped [ ] Fully striped TORRENT CONTAINS: Cover............:Front Sample...........:1.30min/31,5MB SFVCheckfile Movie NFOfile URL 1. Pcnokkelen.no.......: http://www.pcnokkelen.no/Crosslink.jsp?d=490 2. Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002HSD6O/qid%3D1137291664/203-8108279-9526352 3 Screenselect.co.uk: http://www.screenselect.co.uk/visitor/product/26352-Gladiators%20Of%20World%20War%202%20-%20The%20Desert%20Rats.html 4 Eurekavideo.co.uk...: http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/films/desert_rats.asp