Forgotten Voices: Desert Victory

by Julian Thompson and Imperial War Museum

Book Overview

'Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone's face was one mass of sand ... The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone' Bombardier Ray Ellis

Had the Allies lost in North Africa, Rommel's Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East, cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia and India, and taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Britain would have been isolated, without oil, and unable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091938589
• ISBN13: 9780091938581
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"