El Alamein 1942 H/C

A detailed day-by-day battle narrative telling the story
of the battle from the perspective of the soldiers
themselves, both British and German. On the night of 23
October 1942 British artillery thundered across the
desolate sands of North Africa to herald the greatest
Allied offensive of the Second World War. Churchill would
describe the crucial and savage days of intense fighting
which followed, as `the end of the beginning'. El
Alamein was the battle that defined both the Afrika Corps
and the British 8th Army, the legendary `Desert Rats'.
Hitler's fanatic insistence that his forces should not
cede ground, caused the destruction of a significant part
of Rommel's army. Like Stalingrad, it marks the end of
the opening phase of Axis victories and sweeping gains
and ushered in the slow but inexorable drive to final
Allied triumph. This is the story of El Alamein and the
British soldiers who fought in it.