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3 unusual facts about Alan Moorehead


Alan Moorehead

A journal of his experiences, while General Claude Auchinleck was in command, during the second year of WW II, mostly in the Western Desert of North Africa.

In 1956, his book Gallipoli about the Allies' disastrous World War I campaign at Gallipoli, received almost unprecedented critical acclaim (though it was later criticized by the British Gallipoli historian Robert Rhodes James as "deeply flawed and grievously over-praised").

Sudd

In The White Nile, Alan Moorehead says of the Sudd, "there is no more formidable swamp in the world".



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