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African ex-servicemen, desperate for somewhere to live, had set up a great semi-permanent camp on the veld close to the city. Pathetically they called it Tobruk, after the place that had seen a great Allied defeat and victory. Scott joined them. But Scott found that life is not a simple fight of good against evil, white against black. The encampment of underprivileged families was run by vicious criminals of their own race. When he tried to hinder them, they burned down the chapel made of sacking that he served. When their leaders left with the communal funds...
...over Britain's responsibilities in Greece and Turkey. In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base, troops in Eritrea, air bases at Derna and Tobruk in Libya, heavy naval responsibility in the eastern Mediterranean. Even if it were feasible (which it is not), the U.S. could not don the discredited garments of colonialism which Britain and France have worn for decades in the Middle East...
...three previous volumes, are all the great Churchillian virtues. His candor, in a statesman commenting on events still fresh in memory, is a constant surprise. Much as it obviously pains him, he is not ashamed to voice his dismay at British mismanagement and failure at Singapore and Tobruk, where British armies surrendered to enemy forces about half their number. Admiring skill, he praised German General Rommel in a speech in the House of Commons during Britain's North African setbacks, and still sticks to his praise. When some Britons grumbled about Eisenhower's deal with French Admiral Darlan...
Pipes & Pawkiness. The Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...