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DENNY Harold
Behind both Lines.
8vo., First Edition, front free endpaper lightly browned; cloth, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting a small piece from bottom half of backstrip. The story of the New York Times's correspondent in WWII. It begins with the day the tanks broke through the British lines in Libya, followed by his long trek back to Benghazi, his journey across the Mediterranean to Italy and Germany, his solitary confinement in a Gestapo prision and his final days of the war in an Italian prison camp.
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STEWART Adrian
Eighth Army's Greatest Victories. Alam Halfa to Tunis 1942-43. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 11 maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes valuable list of Eighth Army formations and units.
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MACKSEY K.J.
Afrika Korps. [Purnell's History of the Second World War. Campaign Book No. 1]
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous photographs and maps throughout; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Purnell's History of the Second World War. Campaign Book No.1.
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STEWART Adrian
The Early Battles of Eighth Army. 'Crusader' to the Alamein Line 1941-1942. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ARMSTRONG Geoffrey
The Sparks Fly Upward. An Experience. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and map; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. An artillery officer retells his service in North Africa, Irasn and Burma during WWII.
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BUNGAY S.
Alamein. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
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WOODS Rex
One Man's Desert. The Story of Captain Pip Gardner VC MC. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates and maps, small personal book-label on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.234; Mullholland & Jordon W110.
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WOOLLCOMBE Robert
The Campaigns of Wavell 1939-1943. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece and maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Enser, p.471.
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ASHER Michael
Get Rommel. The Secret British Mission to kill Hitler's Greatest General. [Operation FLIPPER]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Detailed modern account of FLIPPER, the audacious atempt in 1941 to capture Rommel in his desert HQ. Inevitably covers the formative days of the SAS and volunteer commandos, including Bob Laycock and Geoffrey Keyes, the latter awarded a posthumous VC for the attack.
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BARNETT Correlli
The Desert Generals. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first major study of command in the Western Desert, this important work was recognised as at once authoritative and controversial. Montgomery, in particular, is called to account on several occasions, with Second Alamein criticised not only for its handling but as a needless engagement. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.293.
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WINDROW Martin
Men at Arms, Rommel's Desert Army. Colour Plates by Michael Roffe. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy The original edition.
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FRASER G.S.
A Stranger and Afraid. The Autobiography of an Intellectual. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PERRETT Bryan
The Valentine in North Africa 1942-43. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.421.
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TALBOT Godfrey
Speaking from the Desert. A Record of the Eighth Army in Africa. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates on 13 and endpaper maps, endpapers lightly spotted; original green cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Concise personal account by the well-known war correspondent. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.297.
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OWEN Lt.-Col. David Lloyd
The Desert My Dwelling Place. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. [Second Impression]. SECOND IMPRESSION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates and double-page map; red cloth, gilt back, small fade mark at head of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately creased and age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter with a few short closed tears and loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Published a month after the first edition. An SAS classic. In the war in North Africa, LRDG (Long Range Desert Group), forerunner of the SAS, won a reputation out of all proportion to its size and short existence. Lloyd Owen's classic account of Y2 Patrol is a key account. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.251 (recording the first edition).
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LONG Helen
Change into Uniform. An Autobiography 1939-1946. Foreword by Angela, Countess of Limerick. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Debutante transformed into VAD nurse during WWII and serving primarily in Cairo.
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RITCHIE Henry R.
The Fusing of the Ploughshare. From East Anglia to Alamein. The Story of a Yeoman at War. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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MOORE William
Panzer Bait. With the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment 1940-1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Max Schindler. Action at Calais, in Greece, Sidi Rezegh, Gazala and Alamein.
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SHORES, Christopher
Tunesien 42/43. Luftkampfe uber Fels und Wuste. [First German Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, text in German, with very numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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McGUIRK Dal
Rommel's Army in Africa. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece, coloured plates, numerous photographs in monochrome throughout and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated survey based on an extensive personal collection of memorabilia.
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ROSS Peter
All Valiant Dust. An Irishman Abroad. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served in the Western Desert and at El Alamein, then D-Day, Brussels and the advance to the Rhine.
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SUMMERS Gerald
The Lure of the Falcon. Drawings by Duncan McLaren. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SCHUVER Juan Maria
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883. Edited by Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas H. Johnson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 184.
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SQUIRE Squadron Leader H.F.
Middle East Scrapbook. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RICHARDS Sir Brooks
Volume II. Clandestine Sea Operations in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic 1940-1944. [With a Foreword by MRD Foot].. Secret Flotillas. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs, illustrations and maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second of two volumes reissuing Richards' very scarce original account published by HMSO in 1996. Vol. I covers sea operations to Brittany.
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DENHOLM-YOUNG C.P.S.
Men of Alamein. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrated endpapers; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed and worn at edges. One of the earliest personal accounts of the turning point in North Africa. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.146.
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FEARNSIDE G.H.
Half to Remember. The Reminiscences of an Australian Infantry Soldier in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HECKMANN Wolf
Rommel's War in Africa. Translated from the German by Stephen Seago. Foreword by General Sir John Hackett. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, pp. 1, 193.
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GREENFIELD George
Desert Episode. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; yellow cloth, upper board framed in black, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Eric Fraser. Vividly-written novel based on the author's service in North Africa. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. [Second Impression.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR; IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made board slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The first dedicated biography was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p. 374.
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OWEN Lt.-Col. David Lloyd
The Desert My Dwelling Place. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map, tape marks on front free endpaper, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an SAS classic. In the war in North Africa, LRDG (Long Range Desert Group), forerunner of the SAS, won a reputation out of all proportion to its size and short existence. Lloyd Owen's classic account of Y2 Patrol is a key account. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.251.
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RICHARDS Sir Brooks
The Clandestine Sea Lines to France and French North Africa 1940-1944.. [Secret Flotillas]. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and numerous plates and folding maps (a number coloured); blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original version of Richards' official and exhaustive account of the secret flotillas crucial to both SIS and SOE. It was revised and reissued as two volumes in 2004, retaining the overall 'Secret Flotillas' branding but retitled 'Clandestine Sea Operations' I and II.
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EPPLER John
Operation Condor. Rommel's Spy. Translated by S. Seago. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; yellow cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in France in 1974. Enser, p.203.
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PIERRE-GOSSET Renee
Algiers 1941-1943. A Temporary Expedient. Translated from the French by Nancy Hecksher. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a good, clean copy.
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BLUMENSON Martin
Rommel's Last Victory. The Battle of Kasserine Pass. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, fore-edge mildly spotted else a bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. Enser, p.294.
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CLUNE Frank
Tobruk to Turkey. With the Army of the Nile. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with many plates, and endpaper maps; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter worn and frayed at edges , and with large loss on rear panel. First published in 1943. Not recorded by Enser.
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CROW, ed. Duncan
AFVs of World War One. Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the World. Volume One. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured illustrations and monochrome photographs throughout; green tweed cloth, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers armoured cars, tanks, gun carriers, supply tanks and experimentals of Britain, France and Germany.
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CHEETHAM A.M.
Ubique. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT INNER WRAPPER. SCARCE.
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HYDE-TINGLEY B. A.
A Desert Requiem. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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WHEATLEY Lawrence
An Erksome War. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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HAYLEY Captain H.W.B.
A Wartime Interlude. An Account of his Participation in the Second World War, August 1939- April 1946. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE.
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PHILLIPS Ernest
Hitler's Last Hope. A factual Survey of the Middle East war-zone and Turkey's vital strategic position, with a special Chapter on Turkey's Military Strength by Noel Barber. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly creased at extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL. Enser, p.428.
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OGILVIE Squadron-Leader Eain G.
Libyan Log. Empire Air Forces Western Desert July 1941 - July 1942.. [Second Impression.] GOOD, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, upper board faded at extreme top edge, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly-browned dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at extremities. Enser, p.296 (recording the first edition).
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VERNEY Major-General G.L.
The Desert Rats. The History of the 7th Armoured Division 1938 to 1945. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps in red; original black cloth, divisional emblem blocked in red on upper board, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with closed tears repaired on inner surface. Published in the same month as the fist edition. Reasonably detailed history of the service (Middle East, Western Desert, Europe) of one of the most renowned allied armoured formations of WWII. Includes OOB, commanders and senior staff, and a fascinating account of the creation of the famous divisional emblem. Enser, p.35 ; Smith, p.273.
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PENIAKOFF Lietenant-Colonel Vladimir ['Popski']
Private Army. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates on 9 and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'Popski's Private Army' was the smallest independent unit in the British Army, yet the success of its exploits behind enemy lines in the Western Desert was out of all proportion to its size. Enser, p.482.
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NEILLANDS Robin
The Desert Rats. 7th Armoured Division 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first history of the Divison to feature contributions from Other Ranks. Includes six OOBs for various stages of the war. Smith p.275.
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece and 65 plates and maps (a number full-page) on 39; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the key military memoirs of the twentieth century, this is as much an autobiography as a soldier's account of war. Written entirely by 'Monty' himself (in pencil, as so many of his official communications were composed), this characteristically straightforward (and often politically outspoken) account covers boyhood, early service with the Warwickshires, WWII and beyond (notably, about a third of the work covers his post-war career as CIGS and after). For technical military detail we look to the author's other works; here we find the simple account of a 'soldier who kept the faith'. A great read from one of the unforgettable leaders of his times. Baxter 268; Enser, p.277.
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SAMWELL Major H. P.
An Infantry Officer with the Eighth Army. The Personal Experiences of an Infantry Officer during the Eighth Army's Campaign through Africa and Sicily. Foreword by Sir Philip Gibbs. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps, small label on front free endpaper; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at backstrip. Enser, p.76.
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece and 65 plates and maps (a number full-page) on 39, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear on front panel and lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. One of the key military memoirs of the twentieth century, this is as much an autobiography as a soldier's account of war. Written entirely by 'Monty' himself (in pencil, as so many of his official communications were composed), this characteristically straightforward (and often politically outspoken) account covers boyhood, early service with the Warwickshires, WWII and beyond (notably, about a third of the work covers his post-war career as CIGS and after). For technical military detail we look to the author's other works; here we find the simple account of a 'soldier who kept the faith'. A great read from one of the unforgettable leaders of our times. Baxter, 268; Enser, p.277.
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece and 65 plates and maps (a number full-page) on 39; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. One of the key military memoirs of the twentieth century, this is as much an autobiography as a soldier's account of war. Written entirely by 'Monty' himself (in pencil, as so many of his official communications were composed), this characteristically straightforward (and often politically outspoken) account covers boyhood, early service with the Warwickshires, WWII and beyond (notably, about a third of the work covers his post-war career as CIGS and after). For technical military detail we look to the author's other works; here we find the simple account of a 'soldier who kept the faith'. A great read from one of the unforgettable leaders of our times. Baxter, 268; Enser, p.277.
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