Craig, Norman, - THE BROKEN PLUME - A Platoon Commander's Story, 1940-45.![]() Imperial War Museum, London, ND (copyright 1982), 1st edn., 191pp, half tone frontis portrait, maps, half tone and sepia ills. in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in silver at spine and upper board, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, selected by the Imperial War Museum in their series of personal reminiscences of WW2, the author was conscripted in 1940 and served for a year in the ranks before being commissioned, serving with the Welch Regiemnt in the UK, the Royal Sussex in the Western Desert, Iraq and Persia, and the East Surreys in Italy, seeing action at El Alamein and in Northern Italy where he was wounded two weeks before the end of the war, he records the fighting but also the routine of soldiering which occupied the greater part of his time in the army, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: slight crease and wrinkle in laminate, a little sunned at spine, light creasing front flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper, GBP 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 17.92 | JP¥ 2653] Book number 40877is offered by:
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