They crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory!
Richard Burton stars as a Scottish commando put in charge of a battalion of the 9th Australian Division defending Tobruk. The Australian troop don't like him, and with a year of grim North African duty already under his belt, he's not happy about his new responsibilities either. The outfit is given the frightening order to stave off the battering assaults of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, to give the British Army time to regroup in Cairo and prepare for a counterattack. In the end, the "desert rats" play hell with the Desert Fox for 242 days, during which they and their commander develop some mutual respect and a new understanding of each other.
