Barrie Pitt writes about Rommel's Year of Victory: 'It is always interesting to come across views "from the other side of the hill", and for those who recall the days of the Desert War the views from the other side of that particular barren, stony, bush-bespattered wilderness can be both awful and awe-inspiring. Did we all, British, Germans, Poles and Italians, really live for months in that arid hell - and fight each other across it when battle couldn't be avoided? James Lucas has brought back memories so vivid as to make us automatically check bedsheets for sand every evening and slipppers and shoes for lurking spiders in the morning. And remember the dust! Could anyone who had been there during those days ever forget the dust at Tobruk? Or the reek of cordite everywhere and the taste of chlorine in everything? This text and Kurt Caesar's illustrations paint the picture ... for some, too, damn clearly.' Barrie Pitt was Editor of Purnell's History of the Second World War, Editor-in-Chief of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, and the well-known, highly regarded author of a number of books including On The North African Campaign, The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941 and The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 81 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com