THE FULL MONTY

A NEW GENERAL SHAKES UP BRITISH FORCES AND STRIPS ROMMEL OF HIS AIR OF INVINCIBILITY

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IN the summer of 1942, the British 8th Army was under pressure.

After defeat at the Battle of Gazala, Rommel's Panzer Army Africa had them on the run.

Now both sides, exhausted by the demands of dessert warfare, faced each other at the First Battle of El Alamein with Rommel determined to break through to Alexandria and the Suez Canal.