Bound in publishers black cloth with silver titles to spine. The main characters of this humor, biography story are spike milligan. A confrontation in the desert is volume two of spike milligans outrageous, hilarious, legendary war memoirs. The trail of the fox the search for the true field marshal. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 209 pages and is available in paperback format. Follett builds tension and suspense to a nervetearing pitch as he follows the adversaries across the infernal desert to a confrontation which will determine who wins and loses in this deathly struggle. Erwin rommel was, for a time, hitlers favorite general.
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Field marshal erwin rommel was a noted german commander during world war ii. Pictorial dust wrapper, designed by milligan, showing dual portrait of milligan and rommel with titles in red, white, and black to front cover, rear cover comic photograph of a tommy milligan in the bath. He received his first education in a tent in the hyderabad sindh desert and. As rommels troops come closer to victory, vandam edges nearer to wolff and the crucial key. Having really enjoyed the first instalment of spike milligans war memoirs, i was keen to get on with the rest of the series. The highlight was the chance meeting of harry secombe that would eventually become the goons, if id blinked i would have missed it.
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