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Alamein - Great Battles (Hardcover)
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Alamein - Great Battles (Hardcover)
Series: Great Battles
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Loot Price R587
Discovery Miles 5 870
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El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War,
fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military
technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with
many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book
explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial battle. Based
on an intensive reading of the contemporary sources, in particular
the extensive and recently declassified British bugging of Axis
prisoners of war, military historian Simon Ball turns Alamein on
its head, explaining it as a cultural defeat for Britain. Alamein
is a military history of the battle - showing how different it
looks stripped of later cultural excrescences. But it also shows
how 'Alamein culture' saturated the post-war world, when archival
sources mingled with film, novels, magazines, popular histories,
and the rest of Alamein's footprint. Whether you are interested in
the battle itself or its cultural afterlife, if you have an opinion
about Alamein, you'll question it after reading this book.
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