The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943 - Hardcover

by John W. Gordon (Author)

Gordon's book reveals an impressive mastery of the archival and secondary sources available on the subject. His writing is crisp and interesting, yet sober and scholarly at the same time. The daring and resourceful men of the British desert forces have found a historian whose ability to tell their story matches their ability to create some of the most daring and imaginative operations of World War II. This is an extraordinary book about extraordinary soldiers. Military Review

Author Biography

JOHN W. GORDON is Professor of History at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.