1941: Hell in the Desert: Stories, photographs and observations on a year of War in Libya

This book records the WWII battles in 1941, which took place in the Libyan Desert. Using the author''s personal collection of photographs as the main source material, he sets out to describe the appalling conditions under which these life or death contests were waged. The images are backed up by thoroughly researched material on the background to the various engagements and the book cleverly recaptures the heat, thirst, hunger and uncertainty of any future, which all the troops felt at that time. The book that will interest all students and readers of the literature on aspects of the Second World War. See more