ALAMEIN: WAR WITHOUT HATE (Pbk)

The testimony of the long-suffering squaddies who learnt to adapt to the most unforgiving of battlegrounds and defeat the most potent legend the Wehrmacht produced. Rommel, the Desert Fox, has had biographers aplenty. Here is a first-class account of the arduous hunt to run him to ground. "A remarkable achievement. It is nothing less than a narrative of the whole war on the southern Mediterranean shore from 1940 to 1943. Few historians write as fluently as Bierman and Smith do; few journalists achieve their standards of accuracy" - John Keegan, "The Daily Telegraph" "A big pacy read which, as well as being an account of the battle itself, is a panorama of the desert fighting leading up to the sacking of General Auchinleck and the arrival of Montgomery" - Allan Mallinson, "The Times" "Bierman and Smith's exploration of the campaign is peppered with…fascinating insights…and the authors manage to fill the entire canvas of the desert war" - "Herald" "A first-class account of the arduous hunt to run Rommel to ground" - John Crossland, "Sunday Times" "A new definitive account of the desert battle" - "Daily Mail