It takes the average reader 11 hours and 11 minutes to read Desert War Trilogy by Alan Moorehead
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tussle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert. Moorehead was responsible for the celebrated insight that tank battles in the desert are like battles at sea, the lumbering tanks like ships lost in a vast ocean of sand. The...
Desert War Trilogy by Alan Moorehead is 656 pages long, and a total of 167,936 words.
This makes it 221% the length of the average book. It also has 205% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 17 minutes to read Desert War Trilogy aloud.
Desert War Trilogy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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