War, The Whores And The Afrika Korps

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 144 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On the outbreak of World War II Jack Barber, aged twenty, joined the AIF. He was sent to North Africa and spent the best part of 1941 in the besieged city of Tobruk. This book is an atmospheric account of that turbulent time, told from a footslogger's perspective. Jack Barber covers the range of his experiences from the brothels of Egypt to the privations and horrors of life under siege, with Rommel's troops and Luftwaffe never far away. Graphic accounts of life under fire and the camaraderie amongst men from many walks of life, including a safe-blower and a trumpeter who used to serenade the enemy from his position in the Salient! As Barber notes, Tobruk was a great place for making friends, but a hell of a place for losing them.

ISBN: 9780864179036