THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR by Barrie Pitt

MONGOIMERY & ALAMEIN A definitive history of the Desert War. Volume 111

Throughout the first half of the second World War, control of the inhospitable North African desert was strategically vital for the Allies. In the middle of 1942, the outcome hung in the balance. Rommel & his Afrika Korps had been fought to a standstill at the first battle of Alamein and were desperately short of fuel and equipment...

'Barrie Pitt tells this exciting story well. He has assembled a mass of information and organised it with admirable clarity. His narrative is scrupulously accurate in detail. The whole work will have great appeal for the general reader.' Times Literany Supplement.

Paperback, this edition 2001, 267 pages, reasonable - good condition