The End of the Beginning: From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein, by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig With the tide of war

With the tide of war turning against them

interpersonal relationships

Wiesel's immensely moving

But will the peace and beauty of the island see them through the impending war as it had seen them through the Depression

The End of the Beginning: From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein, by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig With the tide of warSpring 1942. Throughout the world, the Allies retreat before the inexorable march of Fascism: Singapore falls to Japan; the Wehrmacht lays siege to Leningrad, captures the Crimea, and advances on Stalingrad; Greece and Yugoslavia fall to the Nazis; the American Pacific Fleet lies in ruins; and in Libya, Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps faces off against the British Eighth Army. Over the next twenty weeks, a series of battles fought in North Africa's