a memoir of battle, capture and escape in the World War II
A memoir of Ray Ellis, a former British artilleryman recounting his experiences in World War II as part of the Hussars, a unit characterized by rotten food, guns too old to function, chaos and disorganization, and squalid facilities amidst desert fighting in Egypt during a nine-month siege. Ellis was then captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war before he escaped to Italy.
