Alamein The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Second World War

Name: Alamein The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Second World War
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ISBN: 9781849086400

ISBN-10: 1849086400

ISBN-13: 9781849086400

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bryn Hammond

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The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British Eighth Army first thwarted the Axis attempts in North Africa to seize Cairo and the Suez Canal and then smashed through the German-Italian defences, eventually driving the Axis forces out of North Africa. This victory, by a 'British' army actually composed of a variety of nationalities including men and women from the Indian sub-continent, southern Africa, Australians, New Zealanders, French and Greeks, as well as British troops, had…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 6/19/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Dr Bryn Hammond is a member of the Centre for First World War Studies, the British Commission for Military History and the Western Front and Gallipoli Associations. He is also joint convenor of the Imperial War Museum#39;s History Group. He has written numerous articles about the First World War, and is a regular speaker on the subject. Cambrai 1917 is his first book.



Acknowledgements


Preface



The Road



An Oasis of Calm



Diminshing Returns



The Little Man with White Knobbly Knees



Summer Madness



Something Old, Something New



An End Has a Start



Attrition



'La Caduta Degli Dei'


Conclusion


Order of Battle


Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations


Endnotes


Select Bibliography


Index