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Alamein, El, Battle of
Alamein, El, Battle of (October–November 1942) A critical battle in Egypt in World War II. In June 1942, the British took up a defensive position in Egypt. One flank rested on the Mediterranean at El Alamein and the other on the salt marshes of the Qattara Depression. In August, General
MONTGOMERY was appointed to command the defending 8th Army. He launched an offensive in which, after a heavy artillery preparation, about 1200 tanks advanced, followed by infantry, against the German Afrika Korps commanded by General
ROMMEL. Rommel was handicapped by a grave fuel shortage and had only about 500 tanks. The outnumbered Germans never regained the initiative. Rommel managed to withdraw most of his men back into Libya, but this battle marked the beginning of the end of the
NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN for Germany.
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51st Highland heroes of El Alamein plan reunion
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 12/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...60th anniversary of their victory at El Alamein. The decision comes after the Ministry...their defeat of the Afrika Korps at El Alamein when the so- called Desert Rats...than 8,000 taken prisoner. After El Alamein, Montgomery insisted that the Highland...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N...531. $35.00.) The Battle of El Alamein has attracted the recent attention...events, and men. Barr presents El Alamein as a structure of watersheds. El...
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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; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Finally, at the third Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the British Eighth...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...
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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); 5/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...the Commonwealth War Cemetery at El Alamein. We weren't in Egypt's Western...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...
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El Alamein revisited.(Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein. Niall Barr. Jonathan Cape...impression that after falling back to El Alamein, we were cowed and defeated. Then...and this was vital. By the end of El Alamein, however, fire was becoming less...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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I never saw my grandad shed a tear ..until now; 60 YEARS ON, ONE SOLDIER'S RETURN TO EL ALAMEIN.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...Mirror reporter and granddaughter of El Alamein veteran Jack Smith IN a dusty strip...the Essex Regiment, had been in El Alamein, Egypt, fighting Rommel's mighty...weekend for the 60th anniversary of El Alamein and the Commonwealth's last official...
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Veterans remember El Alamein
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 10/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; VETERANS of El Alamein honoured their fallen comrades yesterday...soldiers from both sides of the battle of El Alamein, a bitter 12-day fight in the autumn...the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at El Alamein, the Duke of Kent, the second Viscount...
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Veterans return to El Alamein 60 years on
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; VETERANS of the battle of El Alamein gathered in Egypt yesterday to mark...emotional" ceremony tomorrow at El Alamein, 60 miles west of Alexandria. Mr...been driven back to the village of El Alamein. Montgomery, a veteran of the First...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein By Niall Barr 200 -00, 368 pages...know to my cost, the battlefield of El Alamein is perverse, perplexing and (because...serious coverage to the fighting on the El Alamein position in July ('First Alamein...
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German Army falls at El Alamein.(Heritage)
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the Libyan desert to the hamlet of El Alamein near the Egyptian border not far...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...
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El Alamein, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
El Alamein, battle of, 1942. Fought in Egypt, close to Alexandria, El Alamein was the first decisive, irreversible British victory over German ground...
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El Alamein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
El Alamein or Al Alamayn , town, N Egypt, on the...defense line extending 35 mi (56 km) from Alamein S to the Qattara Depression, a badland...a viscount with the title Montgomery of Alamein. Bibliography: See studies by M. Carver...
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El Alamein, Battles of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
El Alamein, Battles of (World War II) (1942) In June 1942 the British under General Auchinleck took up a defensive position on the Mediterranean at El Alamein, some 50 miles (80 km) from Alexandria, in an effort to...
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El Alamein, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
El Alamein, Battle of a battle of the Second World War fought in 1942 at El Alamein in Egypt, 90 km (60 miles) west of Alexandria. The German Afrika Korps...
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Alamein, El, Battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Alamein, El, Battle of (October–November 1942) A critical battle in Egypt...defensive position in Egypt. One flank rested on the Mediterranean at El Alamein and the other on the salt marshes of the Qattara Depression. In August...
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