252pp incl index, 500g. Library edition; red cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; ex-library with usual library marks and cancellations, front corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, readers' marks in ballpoint on rear pastedown and rfep. Dustjacket spine faded, worn at top and base of spine and front flap corners, remnant accession sticker on spine, now in new protective cover. Moorehead was war correspondent for the London "Daily Express" and after the second Libyan campaign which ended with the retreat of the Eighth Army to Gazala, spent two months in India. Back in the Middle East he stayed with the Eighth Army while its fortunes reached their lowest ebb.

World War II, North African Campaign, East African Campaign, Greece, Crete, War Correspondent