Start Digging, You Bastards!
The Turning Point of the Second World War
$29.13
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2025
Summary
“We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about … We felt it was a suicide mission.”
July 1942: the North African campaign rages and the Allies have been forced to retreat from Gazala, chased through the sandy wastes by Field Marshal Rommel, ‘the Desert Fox’, and his Panzerarmee. The Axis target is Cairo-if they take it, they will control the Suez …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761471766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761471767 |
| Author: | Tom Gilling |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 155mm x 233mm |
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Tom Gilling
Tom Gilling is an acclaimed novelist and non-fiction writer. His first two novels, The Sooterkin and Miles McGinty, were New York Times notable books of the year. His non-fiction works include Bastard Behind the Lines and The Lost Battalions. He is also co-author with Clive Small of the bestselling true crime books Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life and Milat.
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