BRITISH BEST ROMMEL IN BATTLE OF ALAM EL HALFA
Alam el Halfa, Egypt • September 5, 1942 The years-long back-and-forth Western Desert Campaign (June 11, 1940 to February 4, 1943) in the scrubby desert wastelands of Western Egypt and Eastern Libya had reached a stalemate at the end of July 1942, when both Allied and Axis sides licked their wounds in the wake of…