- Joined
- Oct 11, 2010
- Messages
- 12,339
- Reaction score
- 6,886
- Age
- 60
News of the British success in the desert of North Africa proved to be a welcome moral booster on the home front. As the second Christmas of the war approached there was now one substantial territorial achievement to be celebrated, at the end of a year in which British troops had been ejected from continental Europe.