THIS IS THE STORY of a simple soldier. It is a personal story of life in the Western Desert during war. But it is more than that. It is the story of all the hundreds of thousands of men who made up the Eighth Army.

This is not the story of great battles won and lost, nor of tactics and strategy and the like. It is the story of the conditions under which men lived and died. It is the truth behind the headlines, revealing in all its sordidness and grim splendour the thousand other enemies than Germans and Italians which confronted this magnificent army.

 

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