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Evening star., 1960-07-31
How British Relieved
obruk in Tank Battle

disc and a quartermaster's
hell. The main thing was to
get there first with the most
or get the hell out. If little
tank meets big tank, little
tank runs. Doubtless the
British finally won out be-
cause they had both more
and better tanks than the
Germans.
In any event, Mai. Crisp
has a gift for blunt and
irreverent writing comparable
to the speech he attributes
to himself. Students of war
fare, particularly as it in
wolves tanks, will find his
account fascinating.
1t is obvious that Mai.
Crisp never ceased wishing
he had been born in a day
when he could have been a
hell-for- leather cavalryman.
The tanks Just didn't charge
fast enough for him.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
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CURRAGH LASHED DOWN
SchWeitzer's Clinic
In Jungle Described

83-year-old doctor copes with
conditions as he finds them.
Drugs spoil quickly because
of the climate. He must SUI
perylse much manual labor,
III addition to performing
mountains of clerical work.
Often, his patients have de-
layed coming until a witch
doctors miniStrations have
failed.
But the doctor still man
aged to squeeze in time to
discuss philosophy and to
write. He allowed his guests
to photograph the manu-
script of The Kingdom of
God" written on the backs of
old tax forms, calendars
and lumber acquisitions. And
most important of all to Mr..
Cousins, Dr.. SChweitzer broke
a personal rule and drafted
his two-part sta e m ent
Peace or Atomic War?"
Much Of what you saw for
the first time at the hospital
seemed so primitive and in
adequate as to startle," writes
Mr. Cousins. But when DR..
Schweitzer walked through
the grounds, everything
seemed as it should be-"
j. OK.
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belief that "the rivalry Of all
our natural loves and the
love of God is something a
Christian dare not forget"
Mr.. Lewis approach to this
vast and complex subject is
simplicity itself. His short eX-
curSion is divided into four
chapters-one devoted to af-
fection, another to friend
ship, third to Eros, and the
fourth to charity. First he
paints, in most inviting terms,
the rewards of the bond;
then he turns around and
mercilesSly limnS its perils.
He is in favor of love, it goes
without saying-all kinds.
The only place outside
heaven where you can be
perfectly safe from all the
dangers and perturbations of
love is hell"
He begins, comfortably, with
affection. "the humblest and
most widely diffused of loves" "
Affection takes for granted,
accepts all, expects nothing,
comes from circumstance
rather than choice. 1t is the
case where familiarity does
not breed contempt.
The child will love a crus-
ty old gardener who has hard
ly ever taken any notice of it
and shrinks from the visitor
who is making every attempt
to win its regard" But dear
old affection has its pitfalls,
too. In families (Mr. Lewis is
re mark bly, cool about
mother love-, for instance,
you would always find the
trail, pale, weary face await
ing you with silent accusa-
ton" The unlovable are al
ways clamoring for it, there
by inSuring it will be with
held. Affection, in short. is
not enough. 1t requires COM
mon sense and decency.
OF Friendship
Friendship, Mr.. Lewis holds
most high. 1t has fallen into
diSrepute today, he acknowl-
edges, under the charge that
"all friendship is really
homoseXual," a contention he
demolishes. He finds in it's
disinterestedneSS, its unin-
quisitiveness, its sharing of a
secret road a relationship
that could be between angels.
But there is danger, too, the
danger Of eXclusiveness,
smugness. the feeling of a
charmed circle"
"The partial deafness which
Is noble and necessary (be-
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Was Polly Baker Actual
Or 18th Century Myth?

had been identified with sew
eral literary hoaXes, he was
a prime research source. Mr..
Halls efforts showed that
Polly's story also involved
strictly in a literary or philo-
Sophical way-Voltaire, Peter
Annet, Denis Diderot, the
Able Raynal and Thomas
Jefferson.
For those who delight in
unraveling literary clues,
here is an intriguing puzzle.
Polly was an enduring char
acter, being revived as late
as 1912 by a German paper.
She certainly demonstrates
that a large segment of the
population won't allow a few
facts to spoil a good story.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
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How Danes Came
To Utah in 1850

KINGDOM COME. By vir-
ginia Sorenson. CHarcourt,
Brace; $3.50
Virginia Sorensen grew up
in a Utah valley that was
called little Denmark" by
the settlers who had come
from Scandinavia. She was
fascinated by stories of how
these Danes came from an
old country, low and water
bound, to the high and dry
Kingdom" of Utah.
AS a Guggenheim fellow
she went to Denmark to find
out why and how the migra-
ton occurred. This is a fine
bit Of sympathetic historical
writing dating around mis-
Slonary activities of 1850.
Miss Sorenson wrote "A
Little Lower Than the An
gels" and Miracles on
Maple Hill" H. A. L.
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EorIy Virginia Governor
Topic of Charming Book

quaint London Bridge and
not far from the grammar
sc h ool where the tailor
Yeard sent his sons.
1t is the time of the Ar
mada and its defeat, of
En- gliS h rule in the Low
Countries of the Continent,
and of the premiers of many
of Shakespeare's plays at the
Globe-including The Tenn
pest" which was inspired
supposedly by English ad-
venturing in the Bermuda
Islands and Virginia.
This book has great charm
and is almost too-soon fin
iShed. The author is the
widow of DR.. Charles Frank
Ian Turn n of Accomack
County, Virginia, and holder
Of the MA. degree from Cor
nell University. She is a
member of the Eastern Shore
and Virginia Historical So
cietieS.
HENRY A. LYON
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Secret World of Soviet
Espionage Is Explored
THE SECRET WORLD. By

THE SECRET WORLD. BY
Peter Deriabin and Frank
Gibney. Doubleday g. Co.;
$3.50.
The United States, with its
U-2s, has been accused by
Premier Khrushche1 of "un-
heard of provocative actions"
The United Nations was
asked by the Soviet delega-
ton to inquire into these un-
authorized flights that men
ace the security of the
world"
The Soviets seem to be for
getting that no fewer than IA
of its citizens with diplomatic
status have been kicked out
of the United States in the
past 10 years for espionage
activities. Or, that half a
dozen others have left under
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a cloud for similar actions,
and that one is presently in
prison here for such activ-
tiles.
In the light Of these facts,
The Secret World by Peter
Deriabin and Frank Gibney
is interesting and timely. The
book explores the training
and duty of an Intelligence
officer in the U.S.S.R. How
ever, MeSsrS. Deriabin and
Gibney do not stop at a SIM
pie chronicle, they interpolate
all phases of Soviet life.
The Secret World" con-
cludes with an evaluation of
the purported de Staliniza-
ton that GroSpagan Khru-
Shchev has affected and COM
pletely debunkS it as propa-
ganda for the gullible.
"A. J. SCHMIDT.
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Two Officers
On DESTROYER
WhoCIushed
A DEPARTURE FROM THE

RULES. BY Anthony Rob-
irSon &C. P. Putnam's
Sons: $3.95).
The collision of destroyer
and an aircraft carrier cli-
makes the action in this
novel of the peacetime Navy
on duty in the Pacific. Paral-
leling the naval disaster is
another collision - the per-
sonality clash between the
destroyer's captain and the
gunnery officer.
Comparison with such war
time sagas as "The Caine
Mutiny" and Mister Rob-
erts" is so inevitable that the
author even makes passing
reference to a well-remem-
bered quirk of the Gaines
captain. But Mr.. Robinson
strenuously attempts to avoid
the steretoypes of a brutal
captain and a heroic junior
officer. His captain is an am
bilious Naval Academy grad
uate who believes in living
by the Book. His junior is a
reserviSt who puts up only
token resistance to tempta-
ton. Neither is all black nor
all white.
Such peacetime problems
as controlling the venereal
rate among sailors and light
housekeeping" shared by
Navy men and Japanese
women are thoroughly ex-
,plored as the author looks at
the causes and effects of
moral distintegration. He
neither breaches nor sits in
judgment. He lets a court of
inquiry do it for him in the
novels most distinguished Sc
quence.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

It's nice to realize that the
publishers haven't adopted a
code prohibiting characters
you can keep straight, a story
you can run through without
wondering every page or so
what on earth the author
means and what subtle SYM
boliSm you are missing in
taking episodes at their face
value.
THE Sands of Kalahari"
was the first novel in some
time which I found hard to
put aside; I wanted to keep
reading. 1t has been a relief
to put down some of the 9TH
ers (some by authors highly
regarded in exalted literary
circles) and a regret to have
to pick them up again.
Thus I suggest that if you
haven't had that vacation,
you couldn't do better than
to take along William Mulvi-
hills book. Not that it's what
is called light summer read
ing. The story is grim, in a
way. But it's exciting and
taut with suspense. I defy
anyone to call it dull.
Incidentally, this book is
the first to win a new type
of $4,000 award which G.. P.
Putnam's Sons are offering
authors. This is not a prize
contest, but a special incen-
tive for excellent work, to be
bestowed as often as these
publishers decide there is a
Evening star., 1960-07-31
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND
POLLY BAKER. By Max
Hall. Published for the In
stitute of Early American
History and Culture at
Williamsburg, Va, by the
University of North Caro-
lima Press; So
In 1747, a London daily
newspaper printed an &C
count of a New England
court trial at which an un-
married woman was accused
of giving birth to her fifth
illegitimate child. The de-
fendant was Polly Baker,
and she seemed to build her
case on the theory that the
best defense was a strong
offenSe.
The gist Of her situation,
she told the court, was that
she had brought five chill
dren into the world and
maintained them at her own
expense, bothering no one.
In this new country, more
people were needed. and
moreover the Scripture en-
joined Increase and multi
ply"
Indeed, Polly went on, she
preferred wedlock and defied
anyone to say she had ever
refused a bona fide proposal.
Instead of a whipping, she
declared, a statue would be
a more fitting tribute.
Polly's provocative views
were widely reprinted in
Britain, on the continent and
in America. Controversy
bubbled up as to whether the
punishment of unwed moth
erS was just.
But there were some indi-
cations that Polly was a
myth, and Max Hall, a for
mer Washington newspaper
man, has endeavored to trace
the story to its origin. Be-
cause Benjamin Franklin
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tween friends) encourages
the wholesale deafness which
is arrogant and inhuman.'
On the most troubling and
sweetest of loves, Eros, Mr..
Lewis has little to add except
the suggestion that people
enjoy it more. He regrets
the Solemnization of sex
which has gone on in recent
years. AS a Christian, he de-
plores the cult of the body,
which he says should be re-
garded simply as "a donkey
"a useful, sturdy, lazy, OBJ
stinate, patient, lovable and
lnfuriating beast"
A Higher Love
Eros is the most God like
Of loves, being ali-consuming
and desiring the happiness
of another. 1t also has the
furtheSt to fall.
Then Mr.. Lewis takes us to
the soul of the matter, the
love of God and its contradic-
tionS and paradoxeS among
men. Natural loves must be
transformed by charity into
supernatural love. We must
love others not because we
need them or appreciate
them or desire them but for
the love of God and this Mr..
Lewis comedies "is a work so
difficult that perhaps no
fallen man has ever come
within sight of doing it per-
fectly."
Mr.. Lewis is as always a
warm rewarding companion,
both austere and consoling.
speaking truth with grace.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. c.
lvIY 81, 1860
DIR. WEITZER OF
LAMBARENE, By Norman

DIR. S III w EITZER OF
LAMBARENE. BY Norman
Cousins. (Harper g. Broth
ers; $685.
The throb of a generator
outside an unpretentious bun
galow on the bank of the
OgoWe River in Africa sig
nifies that surgery is in prog
reSs. OF the cluster of build
ings which compromise the
h ospital of Dr.. Albert
Schweitzer, the operating
room alone has electricity.
Norman Cousins in DR..
Schweitzer of Lambarene"
stresses that he was told
several times on a visit that
the establishment isn't a hos
pital at all, but merely a
jungle clinic, purpoSely kept
simple by its founder.
When a patient arrives,
he finds a village very much
like the one he had left.
Goats, chickens, antelope and
monkeys roam at large. The
patients family moves into
a cubicle, cooks its own food
and helps with the chores.
Photographs by Clara Ur-
quhart attest to DR.. SchWeit-
zer's efforts to meet the ma
tives on their own terms. The
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PAPERBACKS

MURDER TO A JAZZ BEAT.
BY Henry Kane. Dell,
$35c). A mystery based on
the T'V private detective,
Peter Gum.
A BUTCHERS DOZEN OF
WICKED WOMEN. Edited
by Lee Wright. Pocket,
25cJ Stories of mystery,
m"~der and suspense by
wor l-famouS writers.
GETTING ALONG IN RUS
SIAN. BY Marie Pei and
Fedor Nikanov. Bantam,
35cD. One of a series of
handy language aids for
travellers and students.
FIRST GERMAN READER.
BY H. NJ, Schiller. Mckay,
$l.75). Collection of anec-
dOtes, and stories about
Germany and Germans.
GEORGE WASHINGTON:
MAN AND MONUMENT.
BY Marcus Cunliffe. Men
tor, 50cD Reprint Of the
study Of Washingtons life
and times. Separating fact
from fiction presents a
man stripped Of myth.
LADY L. BY Roman Gray.
pocket, 35c) Reprint Of
a novel about a dazzling
and immoral woman.
TIE COMPLETE SONNETS,
SONGS AND POEM
OF WILLIAM SHAKE
SPEARE. Edited by Henry
W. Simon. Washington
Square. 35c)
NEW YORK PLACES AND
PLEASURES. BY Kate
Simon. Meridian Books;
Sl95J A guide to reStau-
rants, museums and bar
gain Easements Of the out
of way places in New
York.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Tale Of Imaginary Liner
Is Told in Vivid Style

are with her from her cradle
on the Clyde to her grave
in the Atlantic.
To any devotee of ships,
Mr.. Tute provides a rich
experience. He takes the
reader behind the scenes to
the shipyard, to the Offices
Of the 'Leviathan's" COM
pany. to the passenger Offices,
to the travel agency which
booked the rich passengers
and, Of course, to the ship
itself. We get to know the
Bible-quoting captain, the
purser who actually loved
people, the chef and the chief
steward. We make the maid
en- voyage and a world
cruise.
Like OJIlef ShlpS Launched
just before Munich, it was
inevitable that the greatest
Of them all would be stripped
Of her luxurious fittings to
become a troop transport.
After the war, many of these
ships in real life were recon-
verted and continued to serve
out the maritime careers for
which they were destined.
The "Leviathan" of this story
was not so lucky.
To serve the needs of the
novel, the author devotes
considerable attention to a
girl who joins the ship as
"purserette" and returns to
it as a Wren. But the ship
is the real heroine and the
author generally recognizes it.
He has done a job worthy Of
a queen Of the seas.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Other Books of the Week in Brief

literary and poetic tradi-
ton of the Western world.
CITIZENSHIP TODAY. BY
D. w. Brogan. OUniv. of
North Carolina, So Ex-
animation both of the con-
cept Of the responsibilities
OF citizenship in England,
France and the United
States today and the meth
DDS Of education for these
responsibilities.
THE CAPTIVE NATIONS.
BY Roman Small Stock.
tBookman; $3:5OD Ma
tionalism of the non-Rus-
sian nations in the Soviet
Union.
BRITAIN'S SCIENTIFIC
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
MANPOWER. BY George
Louis Payne. stamford:
$780, A general review
OF Britain'S scientific and
engineering manpower.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER. ISL
mon & SchuSter; So An
autobiography.
MOVER OF MEN AND
MOUNTAINS. prentice
Hall; $685. Autobiography
Of an engineering genius
who designed his own life
around a unique partner
ship with God.
HOME MOVIES MADE
EASY. BY Bob Knight.
Doubleday, $685. Al
illustrated how-to-do-it
book.
THE LIVING STORY OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
BY Walter Russell Bowie
CPrentiss-H Hall. $685.
SEEING THE EARTH FROM
SPACE. By Irving Adler.
DAY, $500 A science
study.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

weeks passed, and they as
sumed he had perished. But
had he?
This O'Brien was a strange
and ruthless character. He
was the most powerful man
in the group, a former coll
lege athlete and war hero,
and he liked to kill game,
whether he could eat it or
MOTT satisfied some in
Stinct in him. He figured
there were too many of them
for the meager food avail
able, and he took jefferson
Smith out on the desert,
ostensibly on a scouting ex-
pedition. then forced him
go on alone on the desert,
threatening to shoot him.
Jefferson Smith was an
American Negro, a Ph.D.
who taught at Harvard and
had come to Africa to study
traits of the more primitive
people of the land from
which his remote ancestors
had come.
But Smith fooled the big
bully and managed some
how, more dead than alive.
to reach some Bushmen. The
most ironical chapter in the
book describes how the
highly educated American,
his skin as dark as theirs,
utterly bewildered these re-
mote natives who were still
living in the Stone Age and
probably had never seen a
white man or an engine.
African Atmosphere
O'Brien plotted to get rid,
eventually, of the other two
men-the old German, who
was sturdy and resourceful,
and Mike Balm, an Ameri-
can. Balm was the weakest
physically, who almost died
the first two days from an
infected hand. but was saved
by the plucky nursing of the
girl. Balm, a derelict engi-
neer, went to pieces at first
without his liquor and to-
bacco, but gradually adjust
ed to the new life and gath
cred strength and character.
The girl? She had emerged
from an unsuccessful mar
riage; she was pretty and
spunky. From the first she
had her sights on the hand
some O'Brien, but he was
indifferent-he'd had more
than enough women in his
self-centered, pleasure-seek-
ing life. Well, he wouldn't
turn away from her.
How does it all come out?
That I won't tell you, but I
suspect you'll be waiting
eagerly to find out once you
get into the story.
Mr.. Mulvihill dispoSes of
his characters, happily or
unhappily. adroitly. He does
leave one dangling, his fate
undetermined, but you can
guess what probably will
happen.
The African atmosphere,
incidentally, down to the last
detail, is authentic and vivid.
Young Mr.. Mulvihill is con-
Sidered something of an au-
thority on that vast and
troubled continent.
One of his two previous
novels, Fire Mission" about
the Battle of the Bulge, was
as sharp as any story of &C
tion that came out of World
War II. He teaches history
in a Long Island high school.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
GENERAL

THE MIDEAST IN FOCUS.
BY Norman Greenwald.
public Affairs, $3.50. De-
signed to fill the need for a
general Introduction to the
sociology, history and pol
iticS of the Middle East.
THE ROAD 1 CAME. BY
Paul Jordan-Smith. lCaX-
ton, $3.50. A personal
chronicle of love and ad-
venture on a road leading
from the upper Valley of
Virginia to the Redwood
Groves of California.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO-
DAY. BY Galen Drake.
(Random, $3.95). A IA
nous radio personality
offers inSpirational advice
drawing on his own llte's
experiences.
THE WINEGROWERS OF
FRANCE AND THE Gov
ERNMENT SINCE 1875.
BY Charles x. Warner.
columbia, So. The effect
of government protection
on a vital industry, has i'm
plications for agricultural
problems throughout the
world.
THE SOLDIER IN OUR
TIME. BY C. NJ. c. Sprung.
CDorrance, $3.50. Two
themes: The spirit of the
modern fighting man and
the relevance of this spirit
to the wider crisis Of our
time,
THE LURE FOR FEELING.
BY Mary A. Wyman. phil
osophiCal; $4.75D A study
of the philosophy Of AL
fred North Whitehead re-
lating it to the humanistic
Evening star., 1960-07-31
WhenLin
TnedCuses
A. LINCOLN, PRAIRIE
LAWYER. BY John j. Duff.
(Rinehart & Co.; $7.50D

This book doubtless will
take its place among the
standard works on Lincoln's
life, for it fills in with Schol-
arly detail some of his most
important formative years.
But unfortunately for the
general public, Mr.. Duff, a
lawyer, is not the rare sort
Of biographer who can make
the reader live with the man
who is being described. The
circuit-riding prairie lawyer
of the early 1905 had a most
picturesque life. Here you can
learn all the facts, but the
color is lacking.
Even so, the histories of
Lincoln'S caSes-in which he
defended good men and bad.
even a STAKEHOLDER against
his slave - are interesting
reading. And Mr.. Duff makes
his point well that Lincoln
was one of the most skilled
lawyers of his day.
RICHARD FRYKLUND
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Suburban Housewife
THIS DEMI PARADISE. A

n "A
Westchester Diary. By
Margaret Halsey. (Simon
q Schuster; $500
Time has made a suburban
housewife out of Margaret
Halsey. 1t has not, however,
blunted her tongue, drained
off her malice or given her
the slightest inclinations to
suffer fools gladly.
Fools include almost every
body except the narrator,
her husband, her 9-year-
old daughter, her daughters
school teacher, Mrs. Eliot,
who is "sublimely Indifferent
to children's personalities
and is prepared to twist them
like pretzelS in all the wrong
directions" and the narra-
tors friend Cynthia.
Among those who will call
for the authors celebrated
derision are the Rev. DR..
Aspirin, a "tepid shepherd"
who presides over the daugh-
ter Cora's "low-calorie, salt
free modern liberal Sunday
school,; a lady pollster, Mrs.
Chancellor the president of
the Women's Liberal Club,
and the demonowners of the
super-market.
Miss HalSey's diary entries
sometimes just lead up to a
pun, a quip or a whitening
wisecrack. But they have
their SWeeter moments, too,
and it's nice to have them
recorded by an unSentimen-
tai pen. Threaded through
is the saga of the woman's
club president who quails be-
fore the American Legion.
This is the least convincing
episode. There is also a hi
larious interlude at a vaca-
ton farm, which is a slum in
the country.
This Demi- Paradise" is
very witty and gives the as
surance that non-conformity
can flourish in the suburbs,
too. Miss Halsey calls her.
self the Simon Bolivar of
the P-T-A." A good phrase,
and a good role for her.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
LEVIATHAN.

LEVIATHAN. BY Warren
Tute little, Brown g. Co.;
$4.95.
She was the biggest ship
in the world, Britain's pride,
the queen of the Atlantic
merchant fleet.
In this novel of the fic-
tional "Leviathan" (not the
real-life "Leviathan" which
was scrapped about the time
this ship was launched we
Evening star., 1960-07-31
GEORGE YEARDLEY, GOV
ERNOR OF VIRGINIA. BY


rett & MaSsie; $500
The Yeardley boys were
apprenticed at IA, Just as
were all boys in Elizabethan
times, the elder to an apothe-
cary, and George to a knight,
George himself became a
knight and eventually Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth
Of Virginia, that politically
scandalous enterprise that
dared to allow ordinary folks
to own land. Sir George also
presided at the great gather
ing of asSemblymen in 1719
when, for the first time in
the New World, the people
set up machinery for govern
ing themselves.
The Yeardley boys lived
near Tabard Inn where
Chaucer started his pilgrims
in Canterbury Tales. This
was in southwark across
Evening star., 1960-07-31
BRAZEN CHARIOTS. BY
Maj. Robert Crisp. wv. w.
Norton & Co.; $685.

Norton & Co.; $685.
Only Maj. Crisp's pugna-
cious and repetitive references
to his own undoubtedly great
courage detract from this
excellent book about the
great tank battle of Novem-
ber, l94l, which relieved
Tobruk from Axis encircle-
ment.
Operation Crusader was
one of the turning points of
the war and surely the cru
cial battle for possession of
Western Deserts Of Libya and
Cyrenaica.
Maj. Crisp, a former test
cricketer from South Africa,
writes from his vantage point
as a tank commander in the
Sd Royal Tank Regiment.
Apparently the campaigns
in the featurelesS terrain of
Libya were a tactIcian'S para