Desert Rat Sketchbook

Discussion in 'North Africa & the Med' started by Kuno, May 16, 2010.

  1. Kuno

    Kuno Very Senior Member

    Desert Rat Sketchbook

    Author: Clifford Saber
    Publisher: Sketchbook Press, New York 1959
    Format: Landscape A4
    Pages: 188
    Binding: Hardcover & cardboard box

    I actually did not buy it because of the text but because of the sketches and paintings of Clifford Saber. I guess that it is out of stock in the bookshops since long time... if your are lucky, then you may still find it somewhere.
     

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  2. Kuno

    Kuno Very Senior Member

    Here some pages of the book:
     

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  3. Kuno

    Kuno Very Senior Member

  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  5. Kuno

    Kuno Very Senior Member

    Quite different ideas for the price....
     
  6. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

  7. trackbasher

    trackbasher Junior Member

    My dad was staitioned in Libya in 1960 and here's a photo he took of the 'Lady of Gharyan'......Quoted from WIKI:....

    "Just west of Gharyan, there is a primitive road to the right, which provides a bumpy trip to a derelict former Italian barracks, a relic of World War II.
    There is a crumbling building at the camp. Painted on the bricks of one of the walls inside the building is an enormous (c.4m by 10m) representation of a naked woman, lying on her side, American pin-up style.[7] The upper torso of the woman is shaped as an inaccurate representation of the North Africa coast, and the salient points of her anatomy are marked with names of North African towns.
    The "Lady of Garian" was drawn by Clifford Saber,[8] a volunteer American ambulance driver with the British 8th Army. Saber created the mural to help boost the morale of his fellow servicemen, finishing on 2 March 1943, while his unit was housed for a few days at the barracks in Gharyan".

    ....is it still there?
     

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  8. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    There was a thread about the lady of garian on this forum, cant find it now, though a search should find it.
     
  9. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

  10. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

  11. patricia basha

    patricia basha New Member

    I’ve just located this site, decades too late, I’m afraid. Clifford Saber was my dad’s cousin; Dad was a Marine in the Pacific in 1943. His name was Joe Basha, and if anyone is still out there who knew him or knew of him, I would so love to hear anything you might remember. I just sent a copy of the Desert Rat Sketchbook to my sister, who inherited Cliff’s artistic talent. The link to the Lady is amazing. Thank you so much— Patricia
     
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