A return to the battlefield of El Alamein
On this twenty-first anniversary of the Eighth Army's decisive victory in the Western Desert of Egypt, Godfrey Talbot , who was the BBC War Correspondent on the spot in 1942, recalls the famous campaign and tells how its setting has changed
From a return visit just made he presents a sound picture of some of the places the ' Desert Rats ' knew so well Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
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Godfrey Talbot describes the scene at this year's Alamein Reunion: Friday at 10.30 p.m.