The Lost Oasis
Subtitle: The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780813341033
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Military intelligence; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military History - World War II; History; History - Military / War; History: American; Europe; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Military - World War II
First sentence: ON 8 APRIL 1935 the Daily Mail carried the announcement that: 'The King has approved the award of the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal to Major R.A. Bagnold, leader of the 1929-30 expedition which went in search of the "lost oasis" of Zerzura in the Southern Libyan Desert.'