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This is the Conversation Forum for Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel - the Desert Fox << Faint praise? Allied Invasion in Greece >> Subject: El Alamein Posted Apr 17, 2001 by Titania & Ripley, the unau adolescent   Posting 1 A place I wish would be compulsary for all the head-of-states of the world to visit... ...haven't been able to find an exact number of losses, but somewhere between 20500 and 33500 killed or wounded... and for what? URL to be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A521425 (damn these round-about ways of sharing URLs) Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: El Alamein Posted Apr 26, 2001 by Maolmuire This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 "...and for what?" Em, so that you could have the right to ask exactly that sort of question actually. Just as well the good guys won, isn't it then? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: El Alamein Posted Apr 26, 2001 by Titania & Ripley, the unau adolescent This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 The battle at El Alamein wasn't the sole reason the German's and their allied lost WW2... but this specific battle was for a few kilometres of desert, with thousands of young men (mostly men, and most of them only around 20 years old, according to the tombstones I've seen) dying in the trenches, on both sides. What I'm trying to say is that is the 'ordinary' people who suffer and get killed in war, and El Alamein would be a very good illustration for those in charge; presidents, prime ministers, heads of state, to see the results of their decisions. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: El Alamein Posted Feb 10, 2005 by jofillips This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 what a stupid comment to make... if you need to analyse the stupidity of war go study ww1, ww2 was a completley justified 'crusade' if you like that had to be won. only Soviet domination ruined the effort afterwards Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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