Alamein

For Great Britain, there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. There, in October 1942, in a remote part of the desert between Libya and Egypt, the British army won an epic battle of attrition with Rommel’s Afrika Korps. It was a defeat from which Rommel would never recover and a turning point in the war, famously celebrated by Churchill as “the end of the beginning” — the line in the sand that Hitler’s forces were never able to cross. This is a trenchant reexamination of an event that has been cloaked in myth.

• Author
• Stephen Bungay

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 266

• Publisher
• Aurum Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781854109293

• Characters
• Bernard Montgomery, Erwin Rommel

• Genres
• history, war, africa

• Release date
• 2003