The Long Range Desert Group 1940 1945

"Here at last is the full story of perhaps the most renowned and effective of those sometimes odd but always inspired formations born out of the desert during the Second World War. The author was in the Long Range Desert Group for most of its existence, and commanded the unit from 1943 till its disbandment in 1945. He covers not only the justly famed activities of the group in the deserts of North Africa, but also for the first time its later operations in the Aegean, Italy and different parts of the Balkans -- Yugoslavia and Albania particularly -- where its adventures were appropriately colourful and often bizarre ... Throughout his account he describes and illustrates, with hitherto unpublished photographs, many of the personalities -- British, New Zealanders, and Rhodesians -- who contributed so much to the LRDG's character and success ..."--Inside front cover.