Lions of the Desert

✍ Scribed by Samuel Marquis

• Publisher: Mount Sopris Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 347 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1943593264
• ASIN: B07N1CTLBQ

✦ Synopsis

LIONS OF THE DESERT is the true story of the WWII 1941-1942 Desert War in North Africa and Operation Condor , a story that has captivated the minds of authors, historians, and filmmakers for three-quarters of a century.

The story is told through the eyes of six legendary historical figures that lived through the epic events: Scottish Colonel David Stirling , leader of the Special Air Service , a brigade of eccentric desert commandos that raided Axis airfields and supply lines; German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel , commander of the vaunted Africa Corps , who very nearly succeeded in driving the British out of Egypt; Egyptian Hekmat Fahmy , the famous belly dancer, regarded as a Mata-Hari-like German agent in previous accounts but in fact a far more intriguing and ambiguous character in real life; Major A.W. Sansom , head of the British Field Security unit that hunted down Axis spies and pro-German Egyptian nationalists operating in Cairo; Johannes Eppler , the notorious German spy of Operation Condor whose real story is finally told; and Colonel Bonner Fellers , the U.S. military attaché in Cairo, who was privy to Allied secrets in the North African theater and inadvertently played an important role in intelligence-gathering activities for both sides in the campaign.