Show Notes
After defeats at the Battle of Gazala and the fall of Tobruk, the British 8th Army is in full retreat into Egypt at the end of June 1942. Defensive positions are hastily prepared at the tiny railway station of El Alamein to stop Britain’s nemesis in the desert, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The British 8th Army is now the only thing in the way of the Axis conquest of Egypt.
Thanks to: Dr. Niall Barr - Author of 'Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein' Richard Doherty - Military historian and author of 'El Alamein 1942: Turning Point in the Desert' Dr David Brock Katz - Research fellow at Stellenbosch University and author of 'South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II'
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