A compelling new history of a crucial turning point in the Second World War which also provides a detailed picture of the British Army at a critical stage in its fight against Hitler's Germany.
Dr Niall Barr is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. Educated at the University of St Andrews, he previously taught military history at Sandhurst. He has published widely on British military history and has conducted numerous battlefield tours, including three to El Alamein. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire.
Excellent...a sophisticated, compelling and immensely readable
account... Thoroughly researched, controversial, convincing...
military history at its best
*Daily Express*
There is no doubting the author's immense scholarship... He has a
first-class understanding of strategy and tactics
*Literary Review*
Deserves to become the standard work on the desert war in 1942
*Richard Holmes*
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