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"The second volume in a trilogy, carries the Desert War from the promotion of Auchinleck in mid 1941 to his replacement with Montgomery in mid 1942....weaves a fascinating tale of sharp attacks, counterattacks, incompetence, luck, and pluck as the British 8th Army clashes with the DAK. Delivers insight into the operational spectrum while nicely supporting the flow of battle with tactical anecdotes....thrilling prose, and a real feel for the difficulties of desert war."--MagWeb.
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In the second volume, Churchill replaces Sir Claude Auchinleck as commander-in-chief with Field Marshal Harold Alexander, and places Bernard Montgomery over the Eighth Army. Prior to the changes of command, Auchinleck stopped Rommel's Afrika Korps for the first time at the first battle of Alamein in July, 1942. Still, the Axis forces remained dangerous. The pair's new commands coincided with the arrival of matériel sufficient to give the Allies overwhelming superiority in the field. Montgomery duly planned for a second battle at Alamein six months after the first. The eventual encounter gained a decisive second desert victory, the first since O'Connor's against the Italians nearly two years before. The victory signaled the beginning of the end of the Axis in North Africa.
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