On the night of October 23, 1942, nearly a thousand guns from British batteries opened fire on the German positions just west of the small Egyptian railway depot of El Alamein. Over the next few weeks, infantry and armored divisions from Britain and the Commonwealth reversed the forward progress of Germany's Afrika Korps. Fought under harsh conditions, where men and tanks were challenged by both dense minefields and the desert landscape, the Battle of El Alamein marked the turning point in the war against Hitler's Germany. Directed by the newly appointed General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery, the British forces ultimately pushed the legendary Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his troops back into Tunisia to their final defeat in mid-1943.
Fred Majdalany's acclaimed account puts the battle into context and perspective, explaining in engaging prose both the significance of the victory for the British war effort and the complexities of a wide-open desert battle that pitched tanks, aircraft, and men against each other. The Battle of El Alamein is among the most significant battles of the twentieth century and involves two of the finest tacticians of World War II; understanding its logistics and strategy is of paramount importance for the student of military history.
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"Majdalany recounts the battle with the clarity of full comprehension."—New Yorker
"A shrewd and valuable survey. . . . The course of the battle is lucidly and succinctly described in its successive stages."—Times Literary Supplement
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Fred Majdalany was an officer in the British Eighth Army during World War II. He is the author of Cassino: Portrait of a Battle.
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1 THE STRATEGY of the Second World War gave rise, in its diffuse worldwide implication to a number of campaigns so distinctive in character and locality that they seemed to aspire to an existence of their own outside the mainstream of the war. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
infantry bridgehead, antitank screen, armoured brigade, northern corridor, desert campaign, antitank guns, armored brigades, ooo yards, southern sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Army, Armoured Division, Afrika Korps, Panzerarmee Afrika, Middle East, New Zealand Division, Prime Minister, Highland Division, Desert Air Force, Miteirya Ridge, Rifle Brigade, Australian Division, Kidney Ridge, North Africa, Royal Air Force, Both Light Division, County of London Yeomanry, Field-Marshal Rommel, General Auchinleck, General Brooke, General Freyberg, General Stumme, Qattara Depression, Royal Navy, United Kingdom New!
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1 THE STRATEGY of the Second World War gave rise, in its diffuse worldwide implication to a number of campaigns so distinctive in character and locality that they seemed to aspire to an existence of their own outside the mainstream of the war. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
infantry bridgehead, antitank screen, armoured brigade, northern corridor, desert campaign, antitank guns, armored brigades, ooo yards, southern sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Army, Armoured Division, Afrika Korps, Panzerarmee Afrika, Middle East, New Zealand Division, Prime Minister, Highland Division, Desert Air Force, Miteirya Ridge, Rifle Brigade, Australian Division, Kidney Ridge, North Africa, Royal Air Force, Both Light Division, County of London Yeomanry, Field-Marshal Rommel, General Auchinleck, General Brooke, General Freyberg, General Stumme, Qattara Depression, Royal Navy, United Kingdom New!
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- The Rommel Papers (Da Capo Paperback) by Erwin Rommel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Desert Generals by Correlli Barnett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Brazen Chariots: An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western Desert, November-December 1941 by Robert Crisp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Brazen Chariots: An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western Desert November-December, 1941 by Major Robert Crisp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Royal Scots Greys (Men-at-Arms) by Charles Grant on page 53
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- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Montgomery As Military Commander (Military Commanders) by Ronald Lewin in Back Matter
- On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf by Owen Connelly in Back Matter
- Those Brave Crews: The Epic Raid to Destroy Hitler's Ploesti Oil Fields by Ray Ward in Back Matter
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