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To: JohnM who wrote (95750)	4/23/2003 10:50:25 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Now I'm ready for volume II and the Italian campaign. Patton really made his bones in Sicily. And got his first reprimand. Mark Clark was a real racist. One of the worst among the Generals, from what I hear. I am still getting off the Algerian beach.

To: JohnM who wrote (95750)	4/23/2003 1:21:18 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi JohnM, To complete your historical review of the war in the desert (WW2) may I suggest the works of an early "embedded historian" Spike Milligan. Spike Milligan was actually an artillery gunner, and later became a famous UK comedian. He was in the Tunisian campaign, and later in the Italian campaign, where is was wounded (suffered shell shock) near Cassino. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall amazon.co.uk Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert amazon.co.uk Monty: His Part in My Victory (War Biography) amazon.co.uk Mussolini : His Part in My Downfall ebs.allbookstores.com The books are not a serious review of the war of course.. but I found them worth reading :-)