Paperback edition of the single-volume history of the road to El Alamein during WWII. The battle was a British victory which prompted Churchill to reflect that it might be the 'end of the beginning' of the war. The hardback edition sold more than 15,000 copies and followed Dimbleby's major work on Russia, which sold more than 35,000 copies. 'Dimbleby takes the investigative and narrative approach' Allan Mallinson, "The Times"