In 1942, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his battle-hardened Afrika Korps surged across North Africa, pushing the British Eighth Army to the brink of collapse. With Egypt and the Suez Canal in sight, ...

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 ...