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Title: Mediocre
Review: This short book is an effort to provide a ground view of the turning point of the war in North Africa. Focusing on the recollections of number of veterans, the authors depict the sequence of events leading up to the defeat of the Afrika Corps at El Alamein. This story has been told many times previously, and often better. The effort to present the ground view is laudable but not particularly novel. There is little effort to integrate the personal accounts with broader events. The authors also diffuse the impact of the story by including some extraneous events such as the Dieppe raid. The most novel aspect of the book is the detailing of the success of German intelligence in penetrating British battle plans.
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