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Title: The Cut Thrust – The Battle of Alamein 1942

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Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2000

ISBN: N/A

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 41 pages

Comments: A private publication about the Australian involvement in the Battle of El Alamein during World War Two.

The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) of the Panzer Army Africa (Panzerarmee Afrika) commanded by Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Erwin Rommel, and Allied (specifically, British Imperial) forces (Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck. The battle halted the second (and final) advance by the Axis forces into Egypt, El Alamein being only 106 km from Alexandria.