Alamein

Jon Latimer

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$36.00 • £31.95 • €32.95

ISBN 9780674013766

Publication Date: 03/30/2004

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448 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

32 halftones, 14 maps

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction
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
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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