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'Majdalany recounts the battle with the clarity of full comprehension.' - New YorkerOn 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. It was to prove one of the decisive battles of the Second World War. And a turning point for the British Army, which was finally able to inflict a defeat on the Germans.Fought in the Egyptian desert in the autumn of 1942, El Alamein was a bloody battle of attrition in which the superior generalship and resources of the Allies finally overcame the Germans' brilliantly defended fortress position.The battle was a contest between two of the finest generals of the war - the newly appointed General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery for the British and the legendary Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Montgomery for the Germans.The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand is the classic story of that contest. It brilliantly combines vivid descriptions of the battle…
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The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand Paperback - 1965
by Majdalany, Fred
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- Title The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand
- Author Majdalany, Fred
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- Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher New York: Curtis Books # 01023 1st Printing undated circa, U.S.
- Date 1965
- ISBN 9780502010233
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