Play Dirty

The North African Campaign (1940–1943) is often romanticised as one of World War Two’s “cleaner” theatres: a conflict waged across vast, unpopulated deserts between professional armies, devoid of the civilian massacres or ideological atrocities that stained the Eastern Front or Pacific War. Yet *Play Dirty* (1969), André de Toth’s gritty British war film, dismantles this myth with surgical precision. Set in 1942 dur…