WHEN THE Second Battle of El Alamein began on October 23, 1942, a huge burden rested on the shoulders of British Eighth Army commander General Bernard Montgomery.
High command means balancing the quest for victory against sending potentially thousands of your men to their deaths or to be wounded. Monty, as he was known to his army and to the British public, had that unfathomable responsibility as well as the burden of helping to preserve the government of Winston Churchill and his strategy for conducting the war and protecting the Empire.
America had entered the conflict and were now our Allies in North Africa. It meant that the war overall was almost certain to be won but not that Churchill would retain the confidence of Parliament
