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Alamein to Tunis

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

October 1942-May 1943

"The achievements of the 8th Army will gleam and glow in our history" (Churchill)

The triumphal advance of the 8th Army in North Africa as it was reported at the time in despatches recorded in the field and in the words of the wartime Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P.
With the voices of: The Army Commander: General Montgomery; War Correspondents: Bruce Anderson (South Africa) A. L. Curry (New Zealand) Frank Gillard, Denis Johnston, Godfrey Talbot and officers and men of the 8th Army and of the RAF

Compiled by M. A. Carter
at 10.15-

Source: Radio Times

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