The End of the Beginning From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein

Tim Clayton and Phil Craig

ISBN 10: 074322325X / ISBN 13: 9780743223256

Edité par The Free Press, New York, 2003

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pages 368, bw illustrations. This book is the story of the series of battles in North Africa's Western Desert, against Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The End of the Beginning From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein
• Éditeur: The Free Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 074322325X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780743223256
• Reliure: H/c
• Édition: First Free Press Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine and Protected

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Synopsis

Book by Clayton Tim Craig Phil

Revue de presse

This is a splendid book, well worth reading along with official histories, for it puts many of the facts into the experiences of ordinary men and women caught up in an unwanted but neccessary war. (Yorkshire Gazette & Herald)

An impressive range of interviews with survivors. Their "you are there" technique works powerfully in conveying the gut-wrenching fear of facing Rommel in the turet of a tank, or trying to evade a Stuka attack while manoeuvring an ammunition-packed merchantman en route to beseiged Malta. (The Sunday Times)

They are accomplished listeners and have blended together eyewitness accounts to produce an exciting narrative. (Daily Mail)

Praise for FINEST HOUR: 'Brilliant...should form part of the National Curriculum.' (Daily Mail)

a remarkable story of determined, against-the-odds resistance...you have to search long and hard to find one with this kind of richness in the reporting and craftsmanship in the telling. (Chicago Herald Tribune)

From fighter pilots risking their lives in the skies above England, to squaddies stranded at Dunkirk, to schoolgirls sent abroad to Canada (the book is worth buying just for Bess Walder's account of horror and redemption aboard the City of Benares), this is riveting. (Sunday Express)

Personally compelling and politically revealing. (New York Times)

Compelling...Mesmerising stuff. (Sunday Telegraph)