Some battles change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War II began to turn. Iain Gale tells this dramatic story through seven characters, revealing the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.