Publisher's Synopsis
George Greenfield was a Cambridge scholarship boy sampling the open Lagondas of student life when World War II was declared. After training under the austere eye of Staff-Sergeant Len Hutton, he found himself a subaltern in the Buffs servicing the death or glory boys of 601 Squadron Manston before being posted to the Western Desert in time to take an active part as an intelligence officer in the Battle of Alamein.;Greenfield's contempt is reserved for such luminaries as Horrocks, Sandys, Goddard and Eden; the New Zealand General Freyberg is one of the few who earns his respect. The vanities of Montgomery seen at first hand, the dry humour of Churchill emerging from a service privy, memories of Lawrence of Arabia still nursed in a Syrian border village, the bizarre German brothel plane discovered downed in the desert, the tragic bureaucratic bundling story of the Pole who jumped train, news of the about-to-be-dropped atom bomb being confided over the port - all contribute to this narrative.
