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. Like his definitive ...
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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. Like his definitive history of the Battle of Britain, "The Most Dangerous Enemy," Stephen Bungay's "Alamein "is a trenchant re-examination of an event that has been cloaked in myth.
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Having read "The Most Dangerous Enemy" by the same author and being very impressed by it, I was intrigued to notice this book referred to in a recent television programme about the desert war. I ordered it almost immediately.
Like his very fine account of the Battle of Britain, this is a fine read. The title is slightly misleading, perhaps. Bungay describes much more than the Battle of Alamein and gives a revealing account of much of the war in the Western Desert. He gives a fine picture of the critical, strategic context. For close detail of the Second Battle of El Alamein, you might want to supplement this book with something like "Pendulum of War - El Alamein" by Niall Barr. But for the broad context, some fine description of what fighting in the desert was like and some very penetrating assessments of the key military leaders and what made this important victory possible this is a very fine, well-written and well-illustrated work. I highly recommend it.
