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There is only one museum dedicated to the battle of El Alamein, located in a marina resort some 65 miles (105km) west of Alexandria. Information on the El Alemein (following Arab spelling) museum can be found at: www.touregypt.net/featurestories/alemeinmuseum.htm
Several museums in the United Kingdom preserve in their collections weapons, vehicles, uniforms, movie footage and memoirs related to the El Alamein battle; the most prominent one is the Imperial War Museum (www.iwm.org.uk) followed by the National Army Museum (www.national-army-museum.ac.uk) and the Royal Artillery Museum (www.firepower.org.uk), all located in the Greater London area. Check the Imperial War Museum website for other related museums located outside London, like Duxford. The Tank Museum, located in Bovington, Dorset (www.tankmuseum.org) is a must for anyone with an interest in tanks and armoured vehicles.
There are not many websites dedicated to the battle of El Alamein, apart from the Wikipedia ones, and the most interesting are those of the Australian War Memorial (www.awm.gov.au), which includes official histories and records related to the battle, and the New Zealand collection of official histories, available at the following website: www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/subject-000004.html. Worth mentioning is the good website of the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_map_el_alamein/index_embed.shtml), which includes an animated map.
Strangely enough, no movies about the El Alamein battle were produced in the United Kingdom, or even in Hollywood. The closely related one is Henry Hathaway’s ‘Rommel. The Desert Fox’ (1951), starring James Mason in the title role. On the other hand, the battle provided the background of several Italian movies, mostly low budget ones filmed on entirely different locations. Some are worth seeing: Duilio Coletti’s ‘Division Folgore’ (1955), Guido Malatesta’s ‘El Alamein’ (1957) and Calvin Jackson Padget’s French-Italian co-production ‘La battaglia di El Alamein’ (1969). In 2002 a new movie was released, directed by Enzo Monteleone and entitled ‘El Alamein. La linea del fuoco’.