Dimbleby’s BBC2 TV documentary transmission date confirmed!

25 October 2012

Jonathan Dimbleby’s Destiny in the Desert is the inspiration behind The Road to El Alamein: Churchill’s Desert Struggle, a new television documentary coming to BBC 2 on Monday 5^th November. Written and presented by Dimbleby, The Road to El Alamein tells the story of how the men who fought and died in the Battle of El Alamein were players in a high drama scripted by Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler in the war capitals of London, Washington, Rome and Berlin.

To tell this compelling story Dimbleby travels to all the key locations, among them the Cabinet War Rooms deep beneath Whitehall, the vast bunker in Poland where Hitler plotted his campaigns, the tunnels under Malta where civilians sheltered from the Nazi bombs, the Brenner Pass where Hitler and Mussolini planned their campaign and to El Alamein itself where the battle reached its climax.

Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein – the Battle that Turned the Tide is out now in hardback, £25

‘Fascinating and thought-provoking – and beautifully written – Dimbleby explodes a number of self-serving myths and lets us see El Alamein anew’ – Andrew Roberts

‘Read this fresh and provocative account and you’ll be in little doubt that this was – for Britain – the single most critical battle of the Second World War’ – Peter Snow

‘Dimbleby obviously has a passion for his subject, and he tells the story with confidence of a man who knows the historical terrain intimately. Anyone who does not yet know about this period of the war could certainly do worse than pick up this book’ – FT

‘A compelling multi-strand narrative’ – Mail on Sunday

‘Superbly paced and expressed’ – The Times

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