{"product_id":"9781448216802","title":"Second Battle of El Alamein: Snapshots of War","description":"'I invite the reader to travel the road alongside these men, many of whom are destined to be buried in some foreign field, others to survive and endeavour to forget, and others to live a life of mental torture as they try to adjust after the storms of battle have receded into the history books.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–Victor Gregg, veteran of the Rifle Brigade and 10th Parachute Regiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Gregg, after an absence of eight months of service, is offered a promotion which he promptly turns down, saying, 'You will notice from a glance at my records that I have on at least three previous occasions turned down the offer of advancement. I just wish to fight out this war in the company of the lads who I call my mates, and they are all in the carriers.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October–11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign, causing Winston Churchill to proclaim 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields via North Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this first-hand account, Gregg's words celebrate the unprecedented comraderies of war, but tight-knit groups make for very personal tragedies. He bravely unpicks not only the action of war, but the reaction of the normal men in extraordinary circumstances, trying to maintain sanity amongst the debris of corpses.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155435045104,"sku":"9781448216802","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448216802_p0.jpg?v=1763832557","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448216802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}