Introduced by the author
Series Editor: Hew Strachan
Simon Ball’s Alamein joins the Folio Society’s fully illustrated Great Battles series: a masterful analysis of Montgomery’s famous Second World War victory against Rommel’s North African forces, and its controversial legacy.
Great generals were celebrities. Battles without celebrity generals were battles no one remembered. People remembered Alamein.
As a battle, El Alamein was a straightforward and resounding victory for the Allies against Rommel’s Afrika Korps and the Axis forces. Yet no military engagement of the Second World War has a more contested legacy – one that has prompted more than 300 books. Simon Ball’s superb study stands head and shoulders above the field, chronicling and evaluating a victory that ranks alongside Stalingrad and D-Day in the British psyche. This Folio Society edition includes two hand-drawn maps by Kevin Freeborn and 16 pages of vivid images, taking in battlefield photography, film posters and eyewitness paintings by war artists. Series illustrator Geoff Grandfield contributes the dramatic cover, in which Rommel and Montgomery face off in silhouette across the spine. Alamein is the definitive judgment on what Churchill called ‘the end of the beginning’ of the struggle against Hitler.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Quarter-bound in blocked cloth, with textured paper sides printed with artwork by Geoff Grandfield
Set in Garamond
248 pages
16 pages of mono & colour plates, plus 2 integrated maps.
Plain slipcase
9˝ x 5¾˝
Historic battles reappraised
Triumph and controversy
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