"North Africa was the site of some of the most volatile battles of World War II. For journalist Alan Moorehead, it was war in its purest form, "a knight's tourn

THE STORY OF THAT SEESAW WAR FROM SEPTEMBER, 1940, WHEN THE ITALIAN ARMY INVADED EGYPT UNTIL MAY 1943 WHEN THE COMBINED BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES DROVE THE AX

Alan Moorehead was a peerless war correspondent who covered the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943. The trilogy of books he wrote on the prolonged battle

Chased each other back and forth across the unforgiving North African landscape. Book jacket.

At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Mar