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Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 Glory Thrown In
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'They were men afraid. men desperate. Patient. Exhausted. Half mad. They were the remnants of the Fifty-Fifth.

'The Germans thought that Egypt was theirs. All that stood in their way was the exhausted Eighth Army huddled in the gap between the Quattara Depression and the Mediterranean. But just before Montgomery's immortal attack at Alamein, an Australian infantry battalion was ordered into an action that would ordinarily have been given to a brigade.

'The Fifty-Fifth Division were thrown in to lure German tanks away from the fighting that would result in the successful Allied campaign ending in the Battle of El Alamein.

'A fast-paced tale that takes us into the seedy depths of war-torn Cairo, this powerful novel tells the story of the doomed Fifty-Fifth, a battalion so severely mauled, they were virtually extinct.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Head of Zeus ed.)

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Got glory thrown in / As it were with every ton' (C. Day Lewis).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Frederick Muller ,
      1959 .
      Extent: 247p.
      Note/s:
      • 2nd impression, May 1959.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Corgi Books ,
      1961 .
      Extent: 158p.
      Reprinted: 1966
    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Remploy ,
      1982 .
      Extent: 247p.
      ISBN: 0706609212
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Head of Zeus ,
      2015 .
      image of person or book cover 5514401914377905267.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 304p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 11 December 2015.
      ISBN: 9781784975760
Alternative title: K Slave Odsouzeni
Language: Czech
Last amended 14 Oct 2019 14:49:19
Subjects:
  • Cairo,
    c
    Egypt,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
Settings:
  • Cairo,
    c
    Egypt,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
  • 1942
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