Field Marshal Lord Carver (Wordsworth reprint of Batsford original) Although this is an admirably clear account of Alam Halfa and Alamein it does suffer from a paucity of maps. What maps there are fail to identify many landmarks and the location of corps boundaries. The result is that those of us without an atlas can start to lose direction better than that of a Jock battalion in the dust. The shocking state of the Allied army is clearly shown and its need to attack without much training (Churchill whinging as usual) demonstrate the difficulty of moving from loser to victor. It is traditional for wargamers to complain at the pace of Allied advance, I find myself amazed we were advancing. The feel of the book is very much that of a World War One battle with technological cunning attempting to replace a lack of training (use of searchlights for example). More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Dervish St Bartholomew's Eve The Vietnam War El Alamein 1943 The Victory That Never Was Crete: The Battle and the Resistance The Imperial War Museum Book of The Somme The Spanish Civil War Armies of The 19th Century Asia: China The Russian Civil War Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier & Tyrant The Battle for Normandy The Siege of Vienna Vimy! The Great Boer War Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #102 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com