The most devastating global conflict in history, the Battle of Alamein stands out as one of the great triumphs of the Allied forces. In October 1942, the little Egyptian railway stop became the showdown between two legendary commanders - German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and British Lieutenant General Bernard Monty Montgomery. When Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika clashed with the Imperial British forces under Monte, the entire dynamic of World War II changed. Now, in this superb account, John Bierman and Colin Smith unfold the whole story of the decisive campaigns of the desert war, from the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940 to the mass surrender of the Axis forces in Tunis in may 1943.

Reunion --Italians -- Enter Rommel -- Crusader -- Enter Monty -- Alamein -- Endgame -- -- Requiem.