The First Battle of El Alamein, You Know?

If the British had got their heads on their ideas squared away sooner, you wouldn't have needed to fight the second battle of El Alamein. You might have been able to fight it somewhere far further west. But in every step of the way, they're also finding new circumstances for the first time. And that's the, the flop, that's what the start of 1942, is we say the Janus face here, looking back to defeat and forwards to victory.