Back From Tobruk - Hardcover

Bowen, Croswell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597979856 ISBN 13: 9781597979856

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2012

Synopsis

Croswell Bowen began writing and taking photographs for Back from Tobruk in 1941 while en route with his unit of American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers to serve alongside the British Eighth Army in North Africa. Later a successful journalist and author, Bowen never forgot what he had witnessed during his time in North Africa. Back From Tobruk documents the brutality of war and the resilience of the human spirit.

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Rare Book

Review:

"I found Back from Tobruk fascinating. A sensitive young American journalist watching the British at war and play in the Middle East does some of his best reporting when he becomes a stretcher case and is evacuated through various field hospitals, fraternizing with the wounded of both sides. By rescuing her father's unpublished memoir from undeserved oblivion, writer Betsy Connor Bowen has done us all a favor."--Colin Smith, military historian and coauthor of Alamein: War without Hate--Colin Smith

"As World War II recedes in human memory, we are left largely with statistics, battles, generals, destruction. Back from Tobruk, Croswell Bowen's memoir of the war in the desert in the summer of 1942--published, at last, more than forty years after his death--tells what the war was like for an American attempting to do his part as ambulance driver and photographer. It is a cultural gem, recording Bowen's personal awakening to war's reality at the most human, individual level. Deeply moving."--Nigel Hamilton, author of Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-1944--Nigel Hamilton

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1597979856
• ISBN 13: 9781597979856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264