Book description
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over
a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively
in digital form. In this Special, Colin Smith and John Bierman make
the battle of Alamein come alive.
A turning point in the Second World War, the battle of El Alamein
was the culmination of a military campaign like no other. Fought
across desolate arid terrain, the brutal fighting was matched by a
camaraderie and respect between enemies as witnessed in no other
theatre of war. Combining gritty personal testimonies with thorough
journalistic investigation, John Bierman and Colin Smith present a
compelling account of a ferocious but compassionate battle and a
journey through the unforgiving North African landscape.
John Bierman and Colin Smith are both award winning journalists
writing for most major newspapers. They have seperately published a
number of previous books, including
Alamein: War Without Hate
. Their first,
Fire in the Night
, was a widely praised biography of the maverick British commander, Orde
Wingate.
