Father and son team Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of one of the great British military victories of the Second World War: the Battle of El Alamein.

Using ground-breaking graphics, Peter Snow tells of the struggle of strategy and counter-strategy between the German General Erwin Rommel and the British General Bernard Montgomery, which happened sixty years ago almost to the day.
Dan Snow finds out what it was really like for the ordinary soldiers - many the same age as him - as they fought in the searing heat and blinding dust of the Egyptian desert.