Article: Why no El Alamein? LETTERS.(Letters)

Article: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El ...
The Historian;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... structure of watersheds. El Alamein was Britain's last ... on the United States. El Alamein began the final swing ... Above all, however, the El Alamein campaign marked a turning ... the development of a British army that--finally, it ...

Article: MONTY'S DESERT STORM; It was the bloody battle of which Churchill ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... small Egyptian town of El Alamein. The ensuing battle ... start of the battle of El Alamein on October 23, 1942 ... infantry went in, the British Army had laid on its biggest ... forces back until now, at El Alamein, deep inside Egypt ...

Article: Barr, Niall: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Three Battles of El Alamein Woodstock, NY ... could push past the British army without his usual ... does indict the British army for the intellectual ... did escape after El Alamein, but the British ... familiarity with British army traditions, as ... professional ...

Article: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
RUSI Journal;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... The Three Battles of El Alamein By Niall Barr 200 -00 ... the battlefield of El Alamein is perverse, perplexing ... to the fighting on the El Alamein position in July ... depressing way in which the British Army was so poor at institutionalizing ...

Article: ALLIED ARTILLERY, ROCKETS HAMMER IRAQIS BARRAGE IS FIERCER THAN ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 22, 1991 ;     580 words ... ... very much of a larger scale than anything before," said British army Col. Barry Stevens. Stevens said the attack was four times ... the huge British artillery barrage that opened the battle of El Alamein, considered a turning point of World War II. In other action ...

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: 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 ...