Books by Niall Barr

In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, and ultimately war. But then the shared crisis of the Second World War brought Britain and America closer. This is the story of these two armies as they fought in the largest war in history.

In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt.