Company salam
The Salam company was a German defense operation during World War II . The company was carried out in 1942 under the command of the Hungarian desert explorer László Almásy . The operation aimed to support the German Africa Corps . For this purpose, two German spies were to be smuggled through the desert into Egypt , which was controlled by Great Britain .
literature
- John W. Eppler : Rommel calls Cairo. From a spy's diary . 7th edition, C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959.
- John W Eppler: Operation Condor. Rommel's Spy . New edition. Futura Publications, New York 1978 (EA London 1977).
- Anwar as-Sadat : Revolt on the Nile . Wingate Books, London 1957 (foreword by Gamal Abdel Nasser )
- John Bierman : The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy. The Real English Patient . Penguin Books, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-14-101251-3 .
- Artemis Cooper: Cairo in the War. 1939-45 . Hamish Hamilton, London 1989, ISBN 0-241-12671-1 .
- Nigel West: Double cross in Cairo. The true story of the spy who turned the tide of war in the Middle East . Biteback Publications, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-84954-796-3 .