Infantry Brigadier

5mm tear at head of spine. Dust-jacket has large piece missing from front panel, and chips to spine. Text of dust-jacket blurb on flaps is complete. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Second printing (in same year as first printing). x, (2), 371, [1] pages + frontispiece + 17 plates + 14 in-text maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Contents: Infancy of a Battalion; Youth of a Battalion; Greece: The First Action; Greece: The Withdrawal; Greece: Last Days; Crete; Libya 1941: Opening Moves; Libya 1941: Belhamed; 5 Brigade: Western Desert and Syria; Return to Battle: Minqar Qaim; The Stand at Alamein; Ruweisat; El Mreir; The Hard Summer; Munassib; Alamein; Pursuit; Agheila Line and Nofilia; Tripoli; Medenine; Left Hook at Mareth; Into Tunisia; The End in Africa; Italy: The Sangro; The Orsogna Battles; Cassino; Index. "The author of 'Infantry Brigadier' was born in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1897, and so was seventeen when the 1914-18 war began. [. . .] Shortly after the outbreak of war in 1939 he was given command of 20 N.Z. Battalion. 'Infantry Brigadier' begins at this point, and its account of the events that followed ends with that day at Cassino when, commanding 2 N.Z. Division for the attack of April 1944, he trod on the mine which blew off one of his feet and compelled the amputation of the other." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Product Info

Publisher: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press

Year: (1949)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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