![]() ![]() Arguably, studying warfare is more important for military professionals than studying war. Much of the literature on Alamein is in this area. 2 War is strategic, it asks ‘why’ battles are fought. Using a modern academic view, Jim Storr notes that there is a distinction between studying war and warfare. Since then, the battle and the wider campaign has been studied extensively with an average of one book being published about it every three months since 1945. After Alamein, we never had a defeat” helping embed the battle in popular imagination. Speaking of the victory Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously declared “before Alamein we never had a victory. The battle saw the Allied Eighth Army commanded by General Montgomery breach an obstacle belt and defeat their opponents in the desert. The second battle of El Alamein took place over 23 October to 4 November 1942. ![]()
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