Alamein

The Battle of El Alamein in 1942 brought a sense of victory to a Britain grown weary from defeat. And it was a decisive victory: the Eighth Army ended for ever the see-saw desert campaign and drove the German-Italian Panzer army across Egypt and Libya and into Tunisia. There it was destroyed by the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1943, which in turn led to the invasion of Europe. Alamein was the high-water mark of Rommel's career, and it made Monty a household name worldwide. It also changed the way the British Army fought, using concentrated artillery on a scale not seen since 1918 to break through Axis defences built in depth."--Jacket.

  • OCLC #: 50028781
  • ISBN #:
    • 0674010167
    • 9780674010161
  • Call #: PS2570.H43B5
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Physical Description: xiii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Contents:
    • An Obscure Railway Halt --
    • Colonial Rivals --
    • Enter Rommel --
    • The Fall of Tobruk --
    • The Alamein Line --
    • Malta --
    • Enter Monty --
    • Alam Halfa --
    • Lightfoot --
    • In the Line --
    • Final Preparations --
    • The Battle --
    • Barrage --
    • The Assault --
    • The Armour Stalls --
    • Crisis Conference --
    • Crumbling --
    • The Defence of Outpost Snipe --
    • Thompson's Post --
    • Supercharge --
    • The Beginning of the End --
    • The End of the Beginning --
    • Orders of Battle, 23 October 1942.