The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942 ... before launching his attacks against Field Marshal Rommel's German and Italian troops. Follow the battle ...

Rommel to drive eastward along the North African coast to seize the Suez Canal. British forces were routed, and it came down to a stand at El-Alamein. There, British forces kept the Germans ...

He fought alongside Field Marshall Montgomery against "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel in North Africa ... his baptism of fire on the sandy plains of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942, when the British ...

Axis: General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrika Korps including 5th Light Division and three Italian divisions (Ariete, Brescia, Trento); under the nominal command of the Italian General Italo ...