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A history of one of Britain's most famous armies of all time, the Eighth Army, which adopted the Crusader's Cross as its badge of honour. It fought valiantly in North Africa, Sicily and Italy under Auchinleck, Montgomery and McCreery and won a staggering total of 32 Victoria Crosses, half of which were posthumous.

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A blow-by-blow account of the Eight Army's advance from Egypt, to and fro across Libya, then through Cyrenaica to Tunis, across Sicily to central Italy, and lastly across the Po Valley into Austria; laying special weight on the many actions in which Victoria Crosses were won, and giving mention to every army unit that distinguished itself. Begun as a work of family piety - his father had been fighting in North Africa since 1940 - Doherty completed this as a portable memorial to many thousands of brave men from all over the Commonwealth, and indeed the United Nations. An excellent chronical although not an exceptional history. (Kirkus UK)

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