THE WAR THE WHORES and the AFRIKA KORPS
Book Details
Author(s)Jack Barber
ISBN / ASINB00CL58MRA
ISBN-13978B00CL58MR3
Sales Rank751,957
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
On the outbreak of World War II Jack Barber, aged twenty joined the Australian Infantry Forces (AIF). He was sent to North Africa and spent the best part of 1941 in the besieged city of Tobruk.
The War, the Whores and the Afrika corps is an atmospheric account of that turbulent time, told from a footslogger's perspective. Jack Barber covers the range of his experience from the brothels of Egypt to the privations and the horrors of life under siege, with Rommel's troops and Luftwaffe never far away. Graphic accounts of life under fire and the camaraderie amongst men from many walks of life, including a safe-blower and a trumpeter who used to serenade the enemy from his position in the salient!
As Barber notes, Tobruk was a great place for making friends, but a hell of a place for losing them.
The War, the Whores and the Afrika corps is an atmospheric account of that turbulent time, told from a footslogger's perspective. Jack Barber covers the range of his experience from the brothels of Egypt to the privations and the horrors of life under siege, with Rommel's troops and Luftwaffe never far away. Graphic accounts of life under fire and the camaraderie amongst men from many walks of life, including a safe-blower and a trumpeter who used to serenade the enemy from his position in the salient!
As Barber notes, Tobruk was a great place for making friends, but a hell of a place for losing them.
