Word: alamein
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...ballyhoo the world premiere of a new German movie That Was Our Rommel, Frau Lucie sat beside Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib at the showing, was also greeted cordially by Premier Gamal Nasser. Later she placed wreaths on war memorials to both Allied and Axis soldiers at El Alamein, where Rommel lost the crucial battle of the North African campaign...
...Legion had fought for honor in a losing cause, for Gambetta at Orleans, for Maximilian in Mexico. Now there were 1,500 Legionnaires in Indo-China ready to die for Strongpoint Isabelle. They were commanded by Colonel André Lalande from St. Cyr Military Academy, veteran of Narvik, El Alamein, Italy and the Vosges. Lalande was a tough customer: his Legionnaires called him "baroudeur," a brawler. Lalande did not wait for the Communists to come, 20 to 1, to get him. At 0115, he ordered the charge...
...thin, nasal voice, Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein curtly sketches the problem. Suppose the Russians were to advance here. (A dark shadow darts westward across the map.) Then their tactical air force's striking power would extend to here. (A purple light slides across the map, out into the Atlantic, ominously embracing Britain...
...economic headaches, military inadequacies. But they learned from their Military Committee that troops are markedly improved in quality. It was more than one man's doing. But, without slighting the others, allied representatives agreed that one man deserved most of the credit: Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
...sixth and final volume, the epilogue, of Churchill's tremendous history of World War II, which he modestly calls "my personal narrative." In this volume, the thunder of military crisis is past; the tides of the war against Germany have been turned at Stalingrad and El Alamein, and the book is suffused with the glow of anticipated victory. The chronicle begins with Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy, which opened the land approaches to Germany and made Hitler's defeat certain, though not easy, quick or cheap. Churchill tells the closing episodes of the battle story fairly placidly...