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'Maps and plans are spread on the sand as the Brigadier takes his decisions and gives his orders', 1942 (1944). At the beginning of November 1942 the Eighth Army defeated Rommel in the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, pursuing the defeated Axis army across Libya and reaching the Mareth defensive line on the Tunisian border in February 1943, where it came under the control of 18th Army Group. From The Eighth Army. [His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1944]