num_pages: 275
description: A novel recounting the lives of some of the troops who ended up caught in Tobruk, surrounded by the German army for some 242 days, from the time before they enlisted through to the eventual departure of the ones who survived. This is not a book on military history at all, but rather a story about soldiers' lives.
language: English
title: We Were The Rats
titlecomplete: We Were The Rats
genres: World War II
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Penguin