• ‘The best memoir of the North African tank war’ NEW YORK TIMES

• ‘A brilliant memoir’ JAMES HOLLAND

• A tank commander’s gripping firsthand account of the Battle of El Alamein

• This new 2021 Spitfire Publishers edition includes all the author’s black and white drawings from the original 1946 edition and decodes many of the real names featured, but previously hidden through the use of pseudonyms

October 1942. A young British officer stationed in the North Africa rejoined his former tank battalion on the eve of their most perilous conflict – the Battle of El Alamein. Disobeying direct orders, Captain Keith Douglas abandoned his safe staff position to plunge headfirst into the deadly armed combat against Rommel’s AFRIKA KORPS on the blazing desert sands of North Africa. ALAMEIN TO ZEM ZEM is his stunning memoir of one of World War II’s most iconic campaigns. Here is the tragedy, the comradery, the humour and the horror of brutal desert warfare as seen through the eyes of the poet-warrior who experienced it firsthand as commander of a three-man Crusader III tank. A moving tribute to the brave men who viewed hell through a tank turret.