‘Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone’s face was one mass of sand ... The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone’ Bombardier Ray El

Tells the story of the Allies's hard-won campaign in North Africa - starting with early Allied victories with the Desert Rats; unfolding with the strengthening

The subject of the new major film by Christopher Nolan It could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but aga

The definitive history of the battle of El Alamein?"The end of the beginning," as Churchill said?the bloody conflict that would change the course of World War I

Adolf Hitler’s war in Africa arose from the urgent need to reinforce the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, whose 1940 invasion of Egypt had been soundly bea