Author:Steven Pressfield
An unputdownable and incredibly evocative military novel full of thrilling battle scenes and flesh and blood charactersfrom Steven Pressfield, author of The Sunday Times Bestseller Gates of Fire.
"A terrific read...this is historical fiction at its very best." -- JAMES HOLLAND
"A splendid tour-de-force...it should not be missed" -- WASHINGTON POST
"Both a captivating history lesson and rousing guts-n-glory saga" -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Compelling...the narrative is a page turner" -- ***** Reader review
"Mr Pressfield is a true craftsman in the best possible way. You LIVE the story while he is telling it" -- ***** Reader review
"Simply a brilliant read" -- ***** Reader review
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NORTH AFRICA, 1942. AN ELITE BRITISH ARMY UNIT IS ON A DEADLY MISSION.
Autumn, 1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on.
And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance...
Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan - to send a small, highly mobile fighting force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend.
Based on real events, Steven Pressfield's bold novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated 'band of brothers' who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom...
A terrific read - gripping from start to finish...this is historical fiction at its very best
—— JAMES HOLLANDA splendid tour de force, one that brings to life the heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, frustration, fear and - yes - thrill of war
—— WASHINGTON POSTNo one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield
—— VINCE FLYNNReaders of Steven Pressfield know that his stylish and meticulous novels of battle can rise as far above an often dismal genre as Patrick O'Brian's. After two tales of Alexander the Great, he shifts epochs - without any softening of his flinty, rhythmic and laconic prose - to dramatise an episode of the Desert War in North Africa...Presented as the memoirs of a highly literate publisher, this account of the clandestine operation "where a single individual might make a difference" shuns false heroics to paint the true face of irregular war in the wilderness
—— Boyd Tonkin , THE INDEPENDENTNick Stone is emerging as one of the great all-action characters of recent times. Like his creator, the ex-SAS soldier turned uber agent is unstoppable
—— Daily MirrorTicking like a time-bomb, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is full of suspense
—— Express & Star WolverhamptonIt's a blast
—— Peterborough Evening TelegraphSubtle, persuasive and unsettling. A brilliantly troubling and heartening novel
—— Sunday TimesMany passages in The Plot Against America echo feelings voiced today by vulnerable Americans – immigrants and minorities as alarmed by Trump’s election as the Jews of Newark are frightened by Lindbergh’s
—— New YorkerDazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today
The novel is full of his usual furious cackling; tragedy tipping into comedy and comedy into tragedy within the space of a few sentences. The prose is beautiful
—— Mail on SundayA sensation
A polemical classic
—— EsquireBrilliant
One of the best writers of dialogue in the history of inverted commas
—— The TimesA reverberating celebration of family, community and humanity
—— Sunday Times
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