Blitzing Rommel

<p><strong>For Joe Milburn Geordie to the core and son of a tenant farmer war presents an intoxicating mix of terror tragedy bloodshed adrenalin and opportunity.</strong><br /><br />As his wartime exploits earn him admiration and respect he begins to mix in circles very different from those he grew up in — and to take part in military operations that go not only beyond his own previous experience but beyond the expectations of the most practised of soldiers.<br /><br />Gradually he feels his north country past and what he assumed would be his future slipping away. War it seems when needs must has as much to do with loss — of comrades of identity of social structures of assumptions — as it has to do with strategy and politics.<br /><br />When Joe finds himself in North Africa he discovers among all the loss love in the flawless form of Nurse Alice Fleming. Yet as he makes plans for a safer future one more challenge calls. What else can a man expect when he keeps company with the newly-born SAS?<br /><br />And that is when Joe discovers that while service on the battlefield may end the battlefield is just one of many theatres of war — and the war fought in the soul and mind may be the most painful battle of all.</p>