Bringing History to Life Magazine

15 October 2022

The Allies fight back In the Battle of El Alamein, Rommel’s arch-enemy, Britain’s Bernard ‘Monty’ Montgomery, outmanoeuvred his opponent and forced Rommel back. And the defeat in the desert was not the only one the Axis powers suffered. On the Eastern Front, Hitler’s troops ran into bitter Russian resistance at Stalingrad, while in the Pacific, the Japanese were defeated for the first time in the hellish jungles of Guadalcanal. The tables were beginning to turn… This third issue of a six part special series on WWII of Bringing History to Life covers the dramatic moments that turned the war in favour of the Allies – both on the Eastern Front and in the Pacific…