In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and G

This is the most stirring book to arise from the Second World War. The most highly decorated unit of the Second A.I.F. was in action in so many campaigns that a

"In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back toward the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt.