Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in a letter to his wife on 3 July ... The line ran from the small town of El Alamein near the Mediterranean coast to the cliffs edging the Qattara Depression, an ...
He fought alongside Field Marshall Montgomery against "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel in North Africa ... baptism of fire on the sandy plains of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942, when the British Eight ...