Geronimo1967
This wartime documentary has one advantage over many of its contemporaries. Its a largely self-contained story of the planning and execution of a battle from the Second World War that was actually won. Its also a much more internationalist depiction of the activities by soldiers of many different nations that fought against Rommels hitherto unbeaten Afrika Korps across Mesapotamia and towards El Alamein, a mere sixty miles from Alexandria and not much farther from the crucial Suez Canal. There is an astonishing collection of wartime photography to supplement a narration that is frequently quite journalistic in nature. It avoids rousing sentiment and delivers us a more factually-based chronology of reports, augmented by simple diagrams, on h...