With Rommel's Army in Libya

The name Laszlo Almasy gained worldwide recognition as the "English Partent" through the novel and motion picture bearing that title. The real Almasy was a polyglot, cosmopolitan Hungarian who foll under the spell of the Sahara and explored large tracts of the Libyan Desert. Even the Bedouins acknowledged his skills, naming him Abu Ramla, the "Father of the Sands." It was because of this familiarity with the Sahara that, during World War II, he served under General Erwin Rommel in North Africa.

The original. Hungarian edition of With Rommel's Army in Libya was published in Budapest in 1943, and it was based on Almasy's diary covering the two years he spent with the Afrika Korps. After the war, it was placed by the Communists on the index of forbidden books and nearly earned the death sentence for Almasy.