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Article: MONTY'S DESERT STORM; It was the bloody battle of which Churchill said: 'Before we had no victories, after we had no defeats.' Now a graphic new book, based on hundreds of firsthand accounts, tells the incredible stories of the ordinary men who made El Alamein a turning point in the War.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Sixty years ago Rommel's formidable army faced the British forces under General Montgomery at the small Egyptian town of El Alamein. The ensuing battle was a turning point in the War, inspired by Monty's rallying cry, 'Here we will stand and fight. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.' But as this definitive new account by JOHN BIERMAN and COLIN SMITH reveals, were it not for extraordinary individual courage, the War could have been lost . . .
The men left their holes in the ground at 10pm and advanced towards the German and Italian lines. At first it was an oddly unhurried affair, a moonlit stroll with a rifle.
All day they had been ...
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