I'm going to preface this by saying that my interest in autobiographies is getting to know the person telling the story. In the introduction, I had a suspicion I wasn't necessarily going to get that kind of book. The son mentioned his father didn't talk about the war much.
This book is more of a technical evaluation of the desert portion of WWII. Starting with Northern Africa, Alexander then goes into detail about the battles in Italy. Complete with maps, he includes which troops were where and what they did.
For me, this was too much detail. Someone who is interested in the strategy and details of battle will find this book more engaging than I did. He does give his thoughts about a few people, but his personal impressions of those years are largely missing. It just wasn't my kind of memoir.
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