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Alamein
First published 2009
In October 1942 the Axis advance across North Africa threatens Egypt and the Suez Canal. Bernard Montgomery’s Eighth Army prepares to attack the forces commanded by Erwin Rommel across a battlefield of minefields, prepared positions and open desert, where supply, armour and artillery are as decisive as individual courage.
Gale reconstructs the Second Battle of El Alamein through a range of British, Commonwealth, German and Italian perspectives, bringing commanders and ordinary soldiers into the same eleven-day struggle. The known strategic turning point is experienced at ground level as fear, exhaustion, mechanical breakdown and battlefield decisions accumulate into the defeat of the Axis position in Egypt.
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