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Alan Moorehead

Alan Moorehead OBE, was born in Australia in 1910, but resided in England and Italy for most of his life from 1937-83. He was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile: The White Nile and The Blue Nile . His trilogy The Desert War on the North African campaign 1940-43 in which he reported events on the frontline is still seen as a definitive account.