The Way of WarChapter 17
They moved out at eight in the morning, following the faint camel track, at times having to stop to free either the three-tonner or one of the 30 cwt. It was slow going under the burning sun. But at last in the late afternoon they arrived at the Oasis which was set in a depression. About a dozen date palms ringed a pool roughly nine feet in diameter. It was almost sunset before the tents were erected and camouflage nets placed over them. Cookie and Bobby’s cook started to make a meal whilst...