This is a HUGE book that will become a must have amongst military history readers, historians and wargamers alike. It has the most detailed accounts of a whole varierty of small battles and firefights as well as more detail concerning the main days of fighting than found in other recent books. The accounts of the fighting at El Agheila, Mersa Brega, Derna airfield, Mechili and Tobruk are stuffed with eye witness accounts and war diary information all the way and its the same throughout the book. The fighting on the Libyan-Egyptian border before operation Brevity was also amazing in terms of fighting I knew nothing about from other sources. It has a large number of contents pages and a huge index that helps find what you want. Lots of maps but not a huge number of photos although I had mostly not seen the photos before either. However there are plenty of photo heavy books out there as well as photos often seen on the internet so their inclusion is not necessary to enjoy this book.

Although I thought the book was a bit pricey at first it contains as much information as you would expect from four or five books stuck together, so in that sense it was not expensive and is a worthwhile buy because it contains so much new content. Its the sort of book you will keep around to read and re-read many times.