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Destiny in the Desert - The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide (Paperback, Main)
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Destiny in the Desert - The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November
1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous
aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of
the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the
significance of this episode remains unrecognised. In this
thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the
political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle,
charting the nail-biting months that led to the victory at El
Alamein in November 1942. It is a story of high drama, played out
both in the war capitals of London, Washington, Berlin, Rome and
Moscow, and at the front in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morrocco and
Algeria and in the command posts and foxholes in the desert.
Destiny in the Desert is about politicians and generals, diplomats,
civil servants and soldiers. It is about forceful characters and
the tensions and rivalries between them. Drawing on official
records and the personal insights of those involved at every level,
Dimbleby creates a vivid portrait of a struggle which for Churchill
marked the turn of the tide - and which for the soldiers on the
ground involved fighting and dying in a foreign land. Now available
in paperback in time, Destiny in the Desert, which was shortlisted
for the Hessell-Tiltman prize 2012-13, is required reading for
anyone with an interest in the Desert War.
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