As I seem to remember the REAL STORY behind many WWII battles - won and lost - often was deliberately obscured at the time, and only many years later when 'the official Secrets' were declassified, did anything like the real facts start to emerge.

In Africa, for instance, the fact that Enigma had been compromised meant that the real problem was NOT that it would have been so easy to use the decrypted information (and they did use it to help cripple Rommel's supply line - but the Germans began to become suspicious, hence ensued much intentional misdirecting subterfuge!), but the real risk that too much use of that info in the SHORT TERM would cause the Germans to change their security, thus losing the British the LONG TERM advantage of being able to catch changes in strategy and tactics, rather than win a few small battles. there thus had to be a trade off of accepting more causalities in the short term, in the hope of a better long term outcome of the war in general.

Also, it seems that Rommel lost his own message interception and decrypting team, captured by the british.

It was also useful propaganda to allow both ethe Enemy and the Allied public to believe stories like Monty's invincibility, the same as the Germans played up Rommel...

As for Patton and other starring generals (sorry for the pun!) in WWII, you Americans and others ignorant of History just might like to check out just what they were doing BETWEEN WWI & WWII, when the unemployed returned US WWI soldiers marched on the White House, and were camped out. So just WHO disobeyed Presidential orders and terrorised and murdered American citizens then... :-)