Australian War Classics: The Twenty Thousand Thieves by Eric Lambert

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges. Pages are sunned.

First published in 1951. Part of the series Australian War Classics presented by E E (Weary) Dunlop.

In one of the most moving and powerful accounts of the Second World War, Eric Lambert combines an extraordinary perceptive focus on individuals with a spectacular panoramic vision of desert warfare - from the siege of Tobruk to the legendary victory at El Alamein, where the defeated Germans disparagingly dubbed the Australians "the twenty thousand thieves".

Thrown together by fate, isolated in North Africa, fighting a war they did not understand, in Lambert's novel, the Australian Second X Battalion men struggle to resolve personal conflict and cope with the disintegration of the world they had known.

Eric Lambert's intention was to express "his anger and hatred against war, that supreme crime against humanity". He has succeeded brilliantly. (back cover)