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Article: Barr, Niall: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book Review)
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Barr, Niall Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein Woodstock, NY: Overlook 531 pp., $35.00, ISBN 1-58567-655-1 Publication Date: May 2005
When General Erwin Rommel invaded Egypt with his German-Italian army in July 1942, he outran his supplies, gambled that he could push past the British army without his usual air support, and then became stuck, lacking sufficient fuel for advance or retreat after a British holding action. Rommel tried a desperation flanking attack in the second battle, and again suffered from a lack of fuel. The last of the three battles grouped together as El Alamein came in November when British General Bernard Montgomery directed a ...
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Encyclopedia entry: El Alamein, battle of
The Oxford Companion to British History;
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...El Alamein, battle of, 1942. Fought in Egypt, close to Alexandria, El Alamein was the first decisive, irreversible ... Britain, the rest from India, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, against about 100 ...
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