Defeat into Victory. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Slim Field-Marshal William
Cassell,
1956
Defeat into Victory. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Slim Field-Marshal William
Cassell,
1956
218.50 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1956
- Author
- Slim Field-Marshal William
- Publishers
- Cassell
- Keyword
- military, ww2, wwii, far east, burma, 14th army, fourteenth army, slim, chindits, command memoirs
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.
