Alamein to Zem Zem - Softcover

Douglas, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571162649 ISBN 13: 9780571162642

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1993

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Reseña del editor:

Keith Douglas, killed in action in Normandy in 1944, was one of the finest poets of World War II. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in the north African desert, this book is a description of Douglas' experiences on the desert battlefield.

Biografía del autor:

Keith Douglas was born in 1920. At school and at Oxford he was both a prolific poet and a committed member of the Officers Training Corps. When the Second World War broke out, he enlisted immediately, and was posted to Palestine in 1941. When his tank regiment began fighting in El Alamein in 1942, Douglas was instructed to stay behind as a staff officer. But he made his own way to the battlefield, an experience which he recounted in his prose memoir Alamein to Zem Zem (first published in 1946). He later took part in the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944, and was killed three days later. His Collected Poems came out in 1951.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0571162649
• ISBN 13: 9780571162642
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Herausgeber: Graham Desmond
• Zeichner: Douglas Keith