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El Alamein revisited.(Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein)(Book Review)
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March 1, 2005|
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein. Niall Barr. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xliii + 531 pages. ISBN 0-224-06195-X.
This book gives an account of four months from retreat and rout to a victory of terrible cost. Niall Barr writes after the most meticulous research. There has been a misconception about the 8th Army. There was, and still is, an impression that after falling back to El Alamein, we were cowed and defeated. Then, it is believed, Montgomery arrived and put new heart into everyone. This is unfair and Niall Barr shows why. Maybe a new ...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook...35.00.) The Battle of El Alamein has attracted the recent attention...well to turn to this volume. Niall Barr combines extensive archival research...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal
; ...Military History Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein By Niall Barr 200 -00, 368 pages Jonathan Cape, 2004 ISBN: 022406195X...although, as I know to my cost, the battlefield of El Alamein is perverse, perplexing and (because of the surviving...
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Barr, Niall: Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; ...The Three Battles of El Alamein Woodstock, NY: Overlook...battles grouped together as El Alamein came in November when...exhausted Axis defense. Niall Barr's study is not so much...army did escape after El Alamein, but the British created...
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51st Highland heroes of El Alamein plan reunion
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...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...
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El Alamein, the people's battle: Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...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...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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El Alamein's new battle ...to turn into the Egyptian Algarve; In 1942 it witnessed an epic military clash. Now, says John Carter, the Western Desert is fighting to lure an army of tourists, REVIEW.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...bus to the Commonwealth War Cemetery at El Alamein. We weren't in Egypt's Western Desert...the comfort of a five-star hotel. El Alamein's place in military history should...What must be explained first is why El Alamein is as strategically important today as...
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German Army falls at El Alamein.(Heritage)
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine
; ...across the Libyan desert to the hamlet of El Alamein near the Egyptian border not far from...Montgomery that Rommel's army had reached El Alamein exhausted and in bad need of recuperation...Desert Fox had placed his troops near El Alamein where the front stretched 40 miles from...
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Battlefield El-Alamein may soon be a golfers' paradise
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...Hindustan Times London, March 24 -- El-Alamein, the 1942 battlefield in Egypt where...especially the German ones." The Battle of El Alamein, which was fought in the deserts of...enough free access to Middle East oil. El Alamein is 150 miles west of Cairo, and was...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Heroes of El Alamein ready to march again.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...of Rommel's troops at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942. Almost two years earlier the...more than 8,000 taken prisoner. After El Alamein, Monty insisted the Highland regiments...planning to mark the 60th anniversary of El Alamein in October with a reunion and street...
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Why no El Alamein? LETTERS.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Montgomery won the decisive victory at El Alamein against Rommel and his Afrika Korps...therefore, why not even a mention of El Alamein is made in Max Hastings's excerpts...Churchill. Could it be, perhaps, that El Alamein doesn't quite fit his thesis of the...
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