
EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 1
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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The British Army in 1940, 1940, Is a Professional Army.
The Western Desert Force, which routes the Italians in late 1940, in 1941, is most of those are professional soldiers who come from India. They're very flexible, tactical, very flexible. So when it's not going well in the desert, and also, the British army that compasses a great success, but as you pointed out, it's just the Italians. But at the same time, they're hoping to just have to take on the Italians and not the Italians. Whereas, fighting the Germans, again, the Germans to, to waste them, to trip themselves in the desert dovetails strategically with the British way of looking at things'
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