Desert Victory (An Imperial War Museum Title)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A fascinating insight
 Desert Victory (An Imperial War Museum Title)
Desert Victory
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ASIN: B000N3TZAU
Release Date: 2007-03-05
Desert Victory (An Imperial War Museum Title)

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4 out of 5 stars A fascinating insight.......2008-01-06

This film looks at war in the Libyan Desert of Egypt and Libya. It was made by official photographers, some of whom were captured or killed, which tells you how close they were to the action.

The main footage is of El Alamein, and shows battles taking place, which are a real eye opener to someone, like me, who has only read about the desert war. There is also footage of Churchill and Montgomery. The film is partly a propoganda exercise, and if you are looking for a very detailed analysis of the strategy employed in the desert you will find that it is somewhat one-sided, but it is still stuffed full of information. I have an interest in the Long Range Desert Group, who made a significant contribution to the Western Desert campaigns, but there is no mention of them in this film, and there are other gaps like this - but they are not really what the film was about. If you take it for what it is - a terrific piece of filming with some excellent top-level explanation - then you won't be even slightly dissapointed.

I originally saw it because my parents had a copy, and bought a copy for myself so that I could watch it whenever I wanted to. I would recommend it to anyone. If nothing else, it brings desert warfare to life in a very vivid way.
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