'Before Alamein we never had a victory.

After Alamein we never had a defeat.'

Winston Churchill

In a gripping account of this turning point of the Second World War, Jon Latimer gives us the experience of the men who fought - British, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Germans, Italians and others besides. We feel their fear, elation or despair as they fight it out at close quarters amid a welter of confusion - heat, sand, smoke, noise, dust, flies and blood.