LIBYA 1941
BOOK OF THE DAY
"Crusader." By Alexander Clifford. George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd. 190 pp. (10s 6d net.) Although the greater part of Mr Clifford's narrative is devoted to the Bth Army’s Libyan campaign of 1941, he also gives a lively, eye-witness account of the Russo-British coup d’etat in Persia. A visit to the Belgian Congo is an almost equally interesting theme. Mr Clifford is a keen observer and an intelligent critic of military events, well schooled, like not a few others, in the Spanish Civil War. Auchinleck’s successful drive to Benghazi is described with a wealth of personal detail that adds colour to the story. The most interesting chapter is the last, in which Mr Clifford holds a post mortem on the campaign and in-hard-learned lessons which the Bth Army under Montgomery so successfully applied.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 4
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