Word: qattara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense of Matrûh, the British drew up their line from that port south to the edge of the Qattara Depression-a great under-sea-level wallow bordered by steep limestone scarps and bedded with salt marshes. Even Rommel, they thought, would not try to outflank them by venturing into that...