Book Details: Attached to the 1st South African Infantry Battalion (part of the British Eighth Army) from July 1941 to December 1942, Captain Jimmy Mullins served as a frontline doctor in North Africa during World War II and saw action in the battles of Tobruk, Gazala and Alamein. Compiled for the first time by his son Chris, this book presents his matter-of-fact letters, written under strict censorship to his family. Punctuated by a dry sense of humour, the letters contain colourful descriptions of desert life, trips to the Holy Land, ancient history, boredom, survival, the fine art of "scrounging" and the war itself"