The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching ...

In a study, "Darazya at El Alamein: a Greco-Roman settlement against the backdrop of an important Second World War battle," published in Antiquity, the team investigated the civilizational ...

fighting in the Battle of El Alamein in 1942. His son, Ian McCaig, said his father was one of the last surviving Second World War veterans in Greater Manchester and served with the Queen's Bays ...

The bell from El Alamein train station (inset ... Their sterling work continued after the Second World War when the Enham village was re-named Enham-Alamein in commemoration of Egypt's generous ...