Aired Wednesday August 10,
9:35am - 10:40amon PBS
Desert War
Series 1 Episode 2A brilliant Axis intelligence coup helps Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps sweep forward to threaten Cairo and the Suez Canal. At a tiny railway halt called El Alamein, the Allied Eighth Army draws a line in the sand and fights a battle that will transfix the world and transform the Second World War.
- Category
- Documentary / War
- Original air date
- 2012-11-12
