EL ALAMEIN Author:John Sadler ? Includes numerous unpublished veterans accounts, collected by the author from personal interviews.? A detailed day-by-day battle narrative telling the story of the battle from the perspective of the soldiers themselves, both British and German.? Includes unique contemporary photographs collected from veterans.On the night of 23 October 1942 Br... more »itish artillery thundered across the desolate sands of North Africa to herald the greatest Allied offensive of the Second World War. Churchill would describe the crucial and savage days of intense fighting which followed, as 'the end of the beginning'. El Alamein was the battle that defined both the Afrika Corps and the British 8th Army, the legendary 'Desert Rats'. Hitler's fanatic insistence that his forces should not cede ground, caused the destruction of a significant part of Rommel's army. Like Stalingrad, it marks the end of the opening phase of Axis victories and sweeping gains and ushered in the slow but inexorable drive to final Allied triumph. This is the story of El Alamein and the British soldiers who fought in it.« less