Description
Title: Alamein – Recollections of the Heroes
Author: Warner, Philip
Condition: Mint
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781844136238
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 239 pages
Comments: In July 1942, German and Italian forces seemed to be at the point of sweeping away the remainder of British resistance in the Middle East and triumphantly overrunning Egypt.
If this had happened, the disaster for the Allies would have been irretrievable. Instead, Rommel’s victorious army was checked on the Alamein line in what became the first battle of Alamein. Two months later with Montgomery and Alexander as C in C Middle East, another Axis thrust was held in the second battle of Alamein at Alam El Halfa.
On October 23rd the Allied forces were finally on the offensive and, after two long weeks of bitter fighting, Rommel’s forces were in head-long retreat. The higher strategy of these battles has been well covered in other books, but this is about the men who fought in the tanks and minefields, in the sand dunes and behind the guns. Through a fascinating selection of first-hand accounts from battalion commanders and private soldiers alike, Philip Warner reveals the loyalty and chivalry, courage and hardship, humour and compassion behind these remarkable series of battles.
The book contains details of museums, memorials, cemeteries, tours and associated organisations all of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveller alike.
