Alamein

Jon Latimer

    List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgments

    Maps

    Introduction

    Part I: An Obscure Railway Halt

    1. Colonial Rivals

    2. Enter Rommel

    3. The Fall of Tobruk

    4. The Alamein Line

    5. Malta

    6. Enter Monty

    7. Alam Halfa

    8. Lightfoot

    9. In the Line

    10. Final Preparations

    Part II: The Battle

    11. Barrage

    12. The Assault

    13. The Armour Stalls

    14. Crisis Conference

    15. Crumbling

    16. The Defence of Outpost Snipe

    17. Thompson's Post

    18. Supercharge

    19. The Beginning of the End

    20. The End of the Beginning

    Appendix: Orders of Battle, 23 October 1942

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

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Jon Latimer lectured at the University of Wales, Swansea and served in the Territorial Army. He is the author of 1812: War with America and Alamein (both from Harvard).