First Victory: Blood, Oil and Mastery in the Middle East, 1941 by Robert Lyman

by Robert Lyman

Excellent Book

Genres: World War II, History

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

By birth a New Zealander, I was educated in Australia and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. After a 20-year career in the British Army I turned my hand to writing, my PhD being published in 2004 as 'Slim, Master of War, a military biography of arguably Britain's greatest field commander of WW2.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

I am a trustee of the Kohima Educational Trust, which seeks to provide educational opportunities for young learners in Nagaland.

Reviews

[Nishant Pappireddi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and extremely detailed account of how Britain secured the Middle East during WW2.