The British Eighth Army, most of the soldiers exhausted, staggered toward a railway stop called El Alamein in the last scorching days of June 1942.

The East Jerusalem resident was shot dead by police in October as he tried to flee after mowing down commuters at a light railway stop.

The driver, Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi, 21, was shot dead by police as he tried to flee after driving into the crowd at a light railway stop.

There, scarcely a hundred kilometers from Algiers, the railway stopped.

The electric light failed one week, letters the next, and as soon as the electricians and postal-workers resumed, the railways stopped running.

From some small railway stops within ten miles of the city there came unofficial and confused reports of a terrible explosion in Hiroshima.