Lost in Libya

Bagnold came and talked to us and said to us we’re going to cross the sand sea. He just said we’re going to raid Murzuk and he thought we could do it without anyone knowing we’re there. Everything was a surprise. No one expected to see us.

– Peter Garland, Long Range Desert Group veteran

Historical docos do not get much better than this, especially when they are telling a story every New Zealander would want to know.

– Reviewer Jane Clifton in The Dominion Post, 29 April 2009

I can see why they call Libya the most arid country in the world. I’ve never seen such expanses of wasteland ever ... God knows how our Kiwi blokes crossed these deserts in open trucks, exposed to the heat.

– History hunter Brendan O’Carroll