The Hill by Ray Rigby

Moderate condition 221p.

A new batch of prisoners has arrived.  In the middle of the compound is a hill - exposed to the midday Egyptian sun and burning pitilessly into every man's concsciousness.  For the hill is the last resort of the most brutal man of them all, and he had the authority to use it whenever he liked.  What he liked most was to have the prisoners run over it at the double with full kit...

This famous novel generates tension of an extreme kind, and its brilliant characterisations spark off a personality clash of a savagery unequalled in recent fiction.