The Twenty Thousand Thieves
THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT: WORLD WAR II.
Their officers called them a stinking, lazy, drunken rabble and their friends said they took the colonel prisoner, burnt down their officers' mess and drove off the military police with heavy rifle-fire. This is the unforgettable story of the gallant men of the A.I.F.: the fearless and fatalistic Diggers of the Western Desert.
Twenty thousand men were on their way to the deserts of Egypt and Libya: some had joined up for adventure, some were on the run from the police, for others, the army meant three meals a day and a bed to sleep in. From an induction camp in Australia to the siege of Tobruk, the savage intensity of Second X Battalion's experiences is not for the faint hearted. How soon will death silence so many of these brave voices and how many will ring out beyond the brutality of the battlefield?
304 pages, 8 editions
English edition · First published 1960 by Head of Zeus · ISBN 9781784977429
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Editions
8 editions
English
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · Head of Zeus · 2016 · ISBN 9781784977429 This page
- Twenty Thousand Thieves · Head of Zeus · 2015 · ISBN 9781784975746
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · Penguin Books · 1992 · ISBN 9780140149272
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves - Australian Classics Series · Currey O'Neil · 1982 · ISBN 9780855506803
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · Corgi · 1976 · ISBN 9780552101912
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · O'Neil · 1975 · ISBN 9780855583965
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · Bantam Books · 1966 · ISBN 9780552081290
- The Twenty Thousand Thieves · Frederick Muller · 1960 · ISBN 9780584311280
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