The End of the Beginning

"End of the Beginning continues the stories of some of the men and women first encountered in Finest Hour. Peter Vaux is now intelligence officer to the Desert Rats, Edith Heap is briefing RAF bomber crews, Ken Lee is fighting for his life in the skies above the desert. And new characters are introduced: Lonnie Dales, a sailor on a convoy battling through to Malta; Mimi Cortis, a nurse in one of the island's supply-starved hospitals; Dougie Waller, an anti-tank gunner facing Rommel's Panzers; Therese Steiner, a Jewish woman deported from Guernsey; Alex Szima, a US Ranger assaulting Dieppe."--BOOK JACKET.