Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II

The definitive history of the desert battle—”The end of the beginning,” as Churchill said— that changed the course of World War II .
It was the Allied victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill’s most famous aphorisms: “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
In this thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the …