The Desert D-Day You’ve Never Heard Of

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If we cannot stay at Alamein alive, we will stay there dead,” British Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery told his Eighth Army in October 1942. Standing at this dusty Egyptian railway outpost just 60 miles west of Alexandria, “Monty” was driven forward by intelligence that even Hitler in Berlin didn’t know – Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the legendary “Desert Fox” commanding the Afrika Korps, was running out of gas.

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