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The Eighth Army versus Rommel: The War in the Desert, Tactics, Training and Operations
With James Colvin
Part of a series of shows to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein on WW2TV
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Today, James Colvin will examine the undertrained and underfunded pre-war British Army, contrasting its leadership with its opposite numbers in Germany, and demonstrate how and why Eighth Army had difficulties in its first 18 months of fighting the Afrika Korps. He will go on to talk about the Eighth Army's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

In doing so, he will discuss the perspective of the commanders, the decisions they made, and how cultural influences effected tactics and decisions of the Eighth Army high command. Ultimately, British commanders were as much the product of their military culture and education as Rommel and his commanders were of theirs, but British military culture and education was, for much of this period, markedly less fit for purpose than the German.

James Colvin has had a lifelong interest in the Desert War because several family members and friends were involved in it. Like most war veterans, they found it difficult to talk of their experiences to those who had not shared them, and he was often intrigued by the contradictions and omissions in their related accounts. James earned a history degree from Bristol University and, following a business career, embarked on a research degree in military history at the University of Buckingham. In addition to service with the Territorial Army's 44th Parachute Brigade, James has contributed to the History Network's World War II Podcast and published an article on Eighth Army operations in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research.
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Eighth Army Versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-1942 by James Colvin
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