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With no hope of relieving or evacuating the beleaguered garrison, the British General Staff resolutely directed the surviving British to resist the marauding Italians for as long as possible.Īlmost in spite of the battle’s utterly-predictable finale, however, the players on both sides decided to perform their parts with legendary ferocity and almost godlike heroism, the British in particular unwilling to resign themselves to frivolous fatalism as they fought to give their ends a majestic meaning. Fiendish Saharan sandstorms precede the final Italian assault​ĭay by day, the noose tightened around the neck of the British Eighth Army.