Now back in print, the classic eyewitness account of one of World War II's greatest campaignsIn The Desert War, which includes the complete texts of The Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle, and The End of Africa, Alan Moorehead recounts with dazzling prose and intimate detail the epic struggle between the Allies and Axis powers in North Africa from 1940 to 1943. Here is the extraordinary story of the "Rats of Tobruk," of Alamein, of Rommel's prized Afrika Korps locked in fierce battle with Montgomery's Eighth Army. Moorehead's Desert War is a masterpiece of reportage, one of the great war books of the twentieth century.