The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching ...

More information: Rafał Czerner et al, Darazya at El Alamein: a Greco-Roman settlement against the backdrop of an important Second World War battle, Antiquity (2024). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.192 ...

Despite the Italo-German force’s attempts to hold back the Allies in Egypt by laying over half a million mines over the ...

On the 72nd anniversary of Al-Alamein battle where thousands of German and allied soldiers perished in 1942, the EU announced its first noteworthy grant to Egypt to clear mines planted by the ...

He inspired a dispirited and defeated force to victory over the Germans and Italians at the Battle of El Alamein. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was convinced this battle marked the turning ...

The Alamein Club was built for the British armed forces by the Egyptian government in 1943 to show their appreciation of the 8th Army and Desert Air Forces defence of Egypt against the Afrika ...

There, Montgomery was the first Allied general to inflict a decisive defeat upon the Axis forces when he drove them from their positions at El Alamein in northern Egypt. On the heels of his North ...