LIONS OF THE DESERT IBD

Sinopse

LIONS OF THE DESERTáis the true story of theáWWII 1941-1942 Desert WaráináNorth AfricaáandáOperation Condor, a story that has captivated the minds of authors, historians, and filmmakers for three-quarters of a century.áThe story is told through the eyes of six legendary historical figures that lived through the epic events:áScottish Colonel David Stirling, leader of theáSpecial Air Service, a brigade of eccentric desert commandos that raided Axis airfields and supply lines,áGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the vauntedáAfrica Corps, who very nearly succeeded in driving the British out of Egypt,áEgyptian 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,áMajor A.W. Sansom, head of the British Field Security unit that hunted down Axis spies and pro-German Egyptian nationalists operating in Cairo,áJohannes Eppler, the notorious German spy ofáOperation Condoráwhose real story is finally told,áand 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.áFans ofáBeneath A Scarlet Sky,áThe English Patient, and theáWWII novels ofáKen Follettá(The Key to Rebecca, Jackdaws, The Eye of the Needle) will enjoy thisátimeless tale ofáWWII espionage, romance, and derring-do in the North African desert--with the knowledge that this is how it all really happened.