Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps forced British forces back across North Africa, after a series of victories. It had ...

On July 2, Britain's Eighth Army, driven and harried by Rommel's Armored Army of Africa, had reached El Alamein. There it had dug its heels into the sandy ridges which divide the Qattara Depression ...

Montgomery, commonly referred to as "Monty," initially earned distinction during World War II due to his highly effective leadership of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.

Warwick: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xii, 249. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $49,95 paper. ISBN: 1913336646 Learning to Fight in the Western Desert One might think that ...

Major Thomas Leslie Ward: Air close support of 8th Army in North Africa. After escaping from Dunkirk I remained the only staff officer with 69 Brigade.

LIEUT.-COLONEL H. S. GEAR, of the South African Medical Corps, has described the hygiene aspects of the El Alamein victory won by the Eighth Army in North Africa (Brit. Med. J., March 18, 1944).

American planners initially resisted British proposals to develop the 8th Army's North African campaign into a Mediterranean Second Front, arguing that this would dissipate Allied forces.

Montgomery, commonly referred to as "Monty," initially earned distinction during World War II due to his highly effective leadership of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.