Eclipse
  • Published: 21 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780552179126
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $37.00
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Eclipse

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8 Dec 2022
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21 Mar 2023
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An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II.

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the capture of Rome. He tells the electrifying story of D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Allied advance through northern France and Belgium, the crossing of the Rhine.

The author reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany, the wholesale destruction, mass surrenders, and the unimaginable horrors of the concentration camps.
  • Published: 21 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780552179126
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $37.00
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About the author

Alan Moorehead

Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne in 1910. Educated at Scotch College and Melbourne University, he was a reporter for the Melbourne Herald before sailing to London in 1936. He became foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, and ultimately one of the finest correspondents of World War II. After the war he turned from journalism to writing books, and in 1956 won the Duff Cooper Prize for Gallipoli. He was awarded the OBE in 1946 and the CBE in 1968. Alan Moorehead died in 1983.