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The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert ... by Kelly, Saul Paperback
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- Condition
- Title
- The Hunt for Zerzura
- Book Title
- The Hunt for Zerzura
- ISBN
- 0719561671
- EAN
- 9780719561672
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 2003-06-19
- Release Title
- The Hunt for Zerzura
- Artist
- Kelly, Saul
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Hunt for Zerzura
- Item Height
- 196 mm
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 253 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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This is a study of the true story behind The English Patient, one of the least known and most extraordinary episodes of World War II. In the 1930s, the Zerzura Club (named after a lost oasis in the Libyan desert) met once a year for dinner at the Cafe Royal in London. Ostensibly, its members were cosmopolitan adventurers indulging a craze for desert travel by motor car and aeroplane, and searching for the lost oases and ancient cities of a vanished civilization. In reality they were mapping the desert for military reasons, marking vital wells and checking terrain. The Club's members were drawn from countries that would soon be enemies, and fellowship masked a vicious rivalry. Mussolini hoped to make Egypt the centrepiece of a new Italian empire, but the British - for whom the Suez Canal was strategically vital - were determined to hold onto that country. When war broke out in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt the Axis powers' advance on Cairo under Rommel, while his fellow club member Count Almasy tried to spirit the Egyptian Chief of Staff out of Cairo, and succeeded in inserting German spies. Both of them were using knowledge and desert craft drawn from the hazardous hunt for the Zerzura Oasis, where each had deceived the other about his true purpose. In telling this story, Saul Kelly draws on interviews with survivors as well as previously unknown documentary material in Britain, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Egypt. His book reads like a thriller by John Buchan or Frederick Forsyth - with one key difference: it is true.
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John Murray Press
ISBN-13
9780719561672
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Hunt for Zerzura
Publication Year
2003
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
196 mm
Item Weight
253 g
Item Width
129 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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