For many, the battle for control of North Africa is seen ... pivotal battles for control of North Africa – the battles for El Alamein in Egypt – and examine the cost of both success and ...

The Mareth Line in eastern Tunisia was a natural defensive position comparable to El Alamein; a front 35km (22 miles) long extended from the coast to the mountains inland. On the night of 20 March ...

During WW2, pipers were used by the 51st Highland Division at the start of the Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. The pipers' tunes were used to identify different regiments. Glaswegian ...

The bell from El Alamein train station (inset top left) was presented to the Alamein club for British and Empire troops, Cairo, in 1942 (inset bottom left). It was then presented to the Village ...

The battle that ensued is known historically as the Battle of the Bulge. The courage and fortitude of the American Soldier was tested against great adversity. Nevertheless, the quality of his ...

His efforts even achieved him some notoriety back home. As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in ...

Russia has launched a brutal and unprovoked military attack on Ukraine. Now Ukraine’s outgunned forces are fighting to hold onto the capital city and the country’s independence. In the early ...