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Article: LIVING: BOOKS - Remember the heroes of Alamein.(Features)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2002
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Byline: RICHARD WILLIAMSON
CHURCHILL put it this way: 'Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end.
'But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.'
An Australian soldier needed just three pithy words to describe what he had been through: 'Noise, death and fear.'
They were both talking about Alamein, a battle that has a significance in British history to match Agincourt and Waterloo.
It was the battle that pitched the Desert Fox against the Desert Rats, Rommel versus Montgomery, the Eighth Army against the Afrika ...