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The Lost Oasis (Paperback, New edition)
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The Lost Oasis (Paperback, New edition)
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"The Lost Oasis" tells the true story behind "The English Patient,"
An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura
Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in
desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who
searched for lost desert oases and ancient cities of vanished
civilizations. In reality, they were mapping the desert for
military reasons and espionage. The club's members came from
countries that soon would be enemies: England and the Allied Forces
v. Italy and Germany. When war erupted in 1939, Ralph Bagnold
founded the British Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt
Rommel's advance on Cairo, while a fellow club member, Hungarian
Count Almasy, succeeded in placing German spies there. Ultimately,
the British prevailed. Saul Kelly's riveting history draws on
interviews with survivors and previously unknown documentary
material in England, Italy, Germany, Hungary, and Egypt. His book
reads like a thriller - with one key difference: it's all true.
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