Line of Fire
Season 1 • Episode 2: El Alamein (1942) • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: El Alamein (1942)
December 31, 2002 • 45 min
In 1942, after a crushing defeat in France and the loss of Singapore to Japan, British forces produced Germany's first major defeat at El Alamein, in northwestern Egypt. It was an unqualified success, and signaled to the British that the war was not hopeless. As Churchill later remarked, "Before Alamein we never had a victory; after Alamein we never had a defeat."
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