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Alamein to Zem Zem (Paperback, Main)
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Alamein to Zem Zem (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R540
Discovery Miles 5 400
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'This is the only book from the Second World War comparable with
the first-war narratives of Sassoon, Blunden or Graves . . . When
the battle of El Alamein began, the poet Keith Douglas was in Cairo
with Divisional HQ. Eager not to miss the action, he took a truck
and, against orders, drove to re-join his regiment. He served as a
tank commander throughout the whole of the allied advance across
North Africa, and Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) is his story.
Boyishness and inexperience give it flash-bulb immediacy . . .
Scenes of unforgettable pity and terror unfold . . . Everything,
from flowers carpeting the desert in winter to vanquished enemies,
is seen with a poet's eye and the generosity of youth.' John Carey,
Guardian This Faber Finds edition of Keith Douglas's classic work -
originally published two years after his death in Normandy in 1944
- includes a new preface by the novelist Richard Skinner.
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