African Trilogy by Alan Moorehead
As a war correspondent for the "Daily Express", Alan Moorehead covered almost the entire war in North Africa. This work was originally published as three volumes covering the original Mediterranean front, 1940-1, when the British forces were led by General Wavell; then 1941-2, what Moorehead called "a year of battle" when General Auchinleck took over; and finally the end of the African campaign, the year of Eisenhower, Alexander and Montgomery, 1942-3. Here are the "rats" of Tobruk, their backs burnt by the sun and their muscles bulging like tennis balls, of Alamein with its "green-blue sparkling sea" and salt flats that looked like the "surface of the moon", of Rommel's prized Africa Korps locked in battle for the "dreary worn-out waste" of the Western Desert with Montgomery's Eighth Army.
Alan Moorehead was an Australian who came to London as a journalist in his mid twenties in 1926. He worked for the Daily Express before turning, after the war, to full time writing books, and contributing to the New Yorker. He was awarded the OBE in 1946, the CBE in 1968. He died in 1983.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780304352272 |
| ISBN 10 | 0304352276 |
| Title | African Trilogy |
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1999-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 654 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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