Tobruk: The Siege (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign Book, No. 26)

159 pp. In Tobruk at the end of the siege there was an absence of exuberance. The men still went about the routine duties in the calm methodical way which had characterised their actions during 242 days of isolation. Those who had been in Tobruk throughout seemed to have developed an affinity with the desert in which they had live so long.