Death or Glory I: The Last Commando: Part I

Author(s): Michael Asher

Fiction

It was Libya, 1942 - Rommel's Africa Korps is sweeping across the desert. Ragged Allied forces are being torn apart in brutal fire-fights on the scorched sands. A desperate message to the Prime Minister is entrusted to First Officer Madeleine Rose, WRNS. Her codename is Runefish.

General Information

  • : 9780141040820
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.456
  • : 01 February 2010
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Michael Asher
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 496

More About The Product

Michael Asher has served in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS. With his wife, Arabist and photographer Mariantonietta Peru, he made the first west-east crossing of the Sahara on foot with camels - a distance of 4,500 miles - without technology or back-up of any kind. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has won both the Ness Award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for Exploration. He has written many books, most recently The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS (Penguin 2007).