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...Museum in New Orleans is sponsoring a Victory in Europe tour to Normandy, led by the museum curators and veterans, who share first-hand stories and serve as guides. On the tour, you'll visit London, Normandy and Paris, and highlights include dinner with Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the son of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The package is priced per person at $5,550 double-occupancy; the single supplement is $1,150. If you can't get to Normandy, the Nola museum is also running a special program on June 6, see the website for details...
...part because some elements of the army and intelligence agency are in cahoots with the Islamic militants they're meant to fight. But also the military is not equipped to deal with an insurgency. "For 60 years, the Pakistani army has prepared to fight the Battle of El Alamein against India on the dusty plains of Punjab," says Riedel. "It's never really thought about how to deal with enemies within its borders." Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, its long-range missiles, fighter jets and tanks are for the most part useless against internal enemies...
Hamburg acknowledges that the council's--and society's--work doesn't conclude with the publication of a report. "What is it Winston Churchill said after the Battle of El Alamein?" he says. "'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning...
...talking about the war and the monumental changes it brought to students' lives--changes like accelerated schedules, calls to join the intense military build-up and news of places like Kharkov, El Alamein, the Coral Sea and the North Atlantic...
...almost be said," wrote Churchill, "that before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat." The Germans in North Africa were in irreversible retreat. Four days after the end of the battle of El Alamein, American tanks and soldiers landed around the Moroccan port of Casablanca to join the British in mopping-up operations against the remaining Axis presence...