Area: Around the Egyptian town of El Alamein, 100km (60 miles ... Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in a letter to his wife on 3 July 1942 After the Allied defeat at Gazala in late June 1942 ...

The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching ...

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was in power in Italy at the time El Alamein was fought in 1942. Opposition parties decried the comments, with the Five Star Movement party saying it was ...

British military structures from 1941–1942, including a complex of 17 underground shelters linked by corridors, were also documented. The Battles of El Alamein were a series of pivotal defenses ...

Then came the Battles of El Alamein. Two battles, fought on the northern shore of Egypt in 1942, would come to represent a turning point in the war in North Africa, ultimately ending in an Axis ...