Article: His courage, like his modesty, was acute: Farewell to a hero.(News)

Article: El Alamein recalled by 1,000 Desert Rats; Bitter ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 24, 2002 ;     564 words ... ... veterans of the Battle of El Alamein paid their respects to ... remembrance of the Battle of El Alamein - between the memorial ... Eighth Army casualties at El Alamein. Because of their sacrifice ... throughout the historical Norman abbey. It was then time ...

Article: 51st Highland heroes of El Alamein plan reunion
The Scotsman;  December 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 60th anniversary of their victory at El Alamein. The decision comes after the Ministry ... in their defeat of the Afrika Korps at El Alamein when the so- called Desert Rats won ... more than 8,000 taken prisoner. After El Alamein, Montgomery insisted that the Highland ...

Article: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El ...
The Historian;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N.Y ... xliii, 531. $35.00.) The Battle of El Alamein has attracted the recent attention of ... ideas, events, and men. Barr presents El Alamein as a structure of watersheds. El Alamein ...

Article: El Alamein, the people's battle: Michael Paris ...
History Today;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... advantage. Finally, at the third Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the British Eighth ... that would drive the Axis from Africa. El Alamein was the turning point in North Africa ... visual memory of the war. But why is El Alamein so clearly remembered? Certainly it ...

Article: El Alamein's new battle ...to turn into the ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  May 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... bus to the Commonwealth War Cemetery at El Alamein. We weren't in Egypt's Western Desert ... the comfort of a five-star hotel. El Alamein's place in military history should ... What must be explained first is why El Alamein is as strategically important today as ...

Article: El Alamein revisited.(Pendulum of War: The Three ...
Contemporary Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein. Niall Barr. Jonathan Cape. [pounds ... impression that after falling back to El Alamein, we were cowed and defeated. Then ... fire and this was vital. By the end of El Alamein, however, fire was becoming less accurate ...

Article: German Army falls at El Alamein.(Heritage)
Spokesman Magazine;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... across the Libyan desert to the hamlet of El Alamein near the Egyptian border not far from ... Montgomery that Rommel's army had reached El Alamein exhausted and in bad need of recuperation ... Desert Fox had placed his troops near El Alamein where the front stretched 40 miles from ...