Alan Moorehead: 3 books

In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘ African Trilogy’ – were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account...

A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the...

This novel of Australia’s disastrous first wilderness expedition is “a fascinating well-told tale of heroism and adventure, told by a master of the craft” (Harper’s).   In 1860, an expedition set out from Melbourne, Australia, into the interior of the country, with the mission to find a route...