The End of the Beginning: From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein, by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig Wiesel's immensely moving

Wiesel's immensely moving

a World War I veteran full of manic energy

sending her – and the reader – on a hunt through place and time

Some minor damage to the top of the dust jacket

The End of the Beginning: From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein, by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig Wiesel's immensely movingSpring 1942. Throughout the world, the Allies retreat before the inexorable march of Fascism: Singapore falls to Japan; the Wehrmacht lays siege to Leningrad, captures the Crimea, and advances on Stalingrad; Greece and Yugoslavia fall to the Nazis; the American Pacific Fleet lies in ruins; and in Libya, Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps faces off against the British Eighth Army. Over the next twenty weeks, a series of battles fought in North Africa's