BRITISH 8th ARMY WWII, THE BOX CONTAINS 50 UNPAINTED FIGURES IN 1:72 SCALE ITALERI Description In August 1942, after the defeats suffered by the British army in North Africa by the Italian-German Axis troops, Winston Churchill replaced General Auchinleck with General Montgomery. General Bernard Law Montgomery quickly led the British VIII Army into a counterattack. He was the strategist of the battle of El-Alamein, in Egypt, which ended with the defeat of the German-Italian forces led by General Erwin Rommel. The soldiers of the VIII Army in the kit are represented in the traditional tropical uniform and equipped with Lee Enfield rifles, Sten machine guns and Bren machine guns.