Master of the dark arts
In the first part of a new series on deception in World War II, Taylor Downing tells the story of Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke, Britain's flamboyant pioneer of misinformation.
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‘The end of the beginning’: Montgomery & El Alamein
Graham Goodlad assesses the career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial general of the Second World War.
El Alamein: turning point in the desert
Graham Goodlad analyses Montgomery’s epic clash with Rommel’s forces, which signalled the end for Nazi Germany’s ambitions in the Middle East.