This weekend was commemorated the 60th anniversary of this battle.
Later, Churchill would say that before it we had no victories, and after it no defeats.
At the time he said "This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"
Italian forces and Rommel's Afrika Corps were engaged by British and Commonwealth forces.
Highland units advanced to the skirl of pipes.
It gets a mention (for the rhyme?) in a list of US battles in the Colwell's Freedom Is Not Free. Also in Bogle's All The Brave Lads, but the commemorations by both sides give the lie to his assertion that their bones and their cause is forgotten.
Anyone heard of, or written, any others?
Keith.