No Normal Battle

Longstop Hill in Tunisia had to be taken if there was any hope of victory in North Africa, and in April 1943 the British attacked. It would be the courageous action of one officer which led to the capture of this vital hill.

SECOND WORLD WAR


In an opening paragraph of a report for the Daily Herald, War Correspondent Alexander Berry Austin wrote: “Machine-gun rattle went on and on, like a boy drumming a stick on an endless iron fence. The blue, grey, and brown smoke of the mortar bursts...

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