num_pages: 158
description: A thrilling adventure of desert warfare which ranks among the most exciting to be told since the war.A group of Frenchmen,assigned to Monty's Long Range Desert Group, set out on a mission across 500 miles of enemy patrolled desert to blow up Rommel's petrol dumps in Tobrok. Led by a British officer, they set off in five Dodge trucks. The mission is accomplished, but casualties are heavy. On the return trip four of the Frenchmen have to abandon their crippled truck in the desert.They succeed in capturing a patrolling German half-track, with its sole surviving occupant - a German captain. But the four Frenchmen must now depend on the German's superior knowledge of the desert to guide them back to El Alamein, for the alternative to getting out of the desert together is is dying a slow death together.
language: English
title: Taxi to Tobruk
publisher: Fontana