The Battle of El Alamein
Subtitle: Fortress in the Sand
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780812218503
Subjects: History; Warfare & Defence; Military - World War II; History - Military / War; Military; History / Military / World War II; Military - General; El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt,; El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942
First sentence: 1 THE STRATEGY of the Second World War gave rise, in its diffuse worldwide implication to a number of campaigns so distinctive in character and locality that they seemed to aspire to an existence of their own outside the mainstream of the war.