The Allied 'Mouse Trap' That Caught 250,000 Axis Soldiers

In the spring of 1943, a quarter of a million of Hitler's best soldiers, including the veterans of the legendary Afrika Korps, were cornered in Tunisia. They were dug in, confident, and prepared to fight to the last man. They believed their fortress was unbreakable.

They were wrong. They were not waiting for a battle; they were waiting for a trap.

This is the hidden story of Operation Vulcan, the brilliant and deceptive Allied plan that fooled the entire German high command. We reveal how the Allies used a massive feint attack to lure Germany's elite panzer divisions into a pointless battle, only to unleash a secret, overwhelming armored assault that shattered their front line and led to a disaster the Germans called "Tunisgrad."

Join us as we uncover:

The Perfect Deception: The secret strategy that made the Germans look the wrong way at the worst possible moment.
The Mouse Trap: How the Allies created a perfectly prepared killing floor and snapped a trap shut on an entire army group.
America's Revenge: The story of how the US Army, humiliated just months earlier at Kasserine Pass, achieved total victory.
Tunisgrad: The shocking story of the 275,000 Axis soldiers who surrendered, a catastrophe that rivaled the disaster at Stalingrad.
This is the story of the brilliant lie that won the war in Africa and set the stage for the invasion of Europe.

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