Desert Rats: The Desert War 1940-3 in the Words of Those Who Fought There

by John Sadler

The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a life and death struggle with the Axis powers in North Africa, a titanic, swaying conflict that surged back and forth across the barren wastes of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. This desert war encompassed many of the epic battles of the Second World War, Halfaya Pass, Gazala, Tobruk, and El Alamein. Those British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848683375
• ISBN13: 9781848683372
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"