Forty, George, - FIFTH ARMY AT WAR.

Ian Allan, London, 1980, 1st edn., 144pp, half tone photo pictorial half title, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills., maps, facsimiles and line drawings in text, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, an account of the US Fifth Army during WW2, formed in January 1943 with responsibility for the defence of Algeria and Morocco and while the Seventh Army invaded Sicily the Fifth took on the planning of the US element of the invasion of mainland Italy. It was formed from a mixture of Allied nationalities and first saw action at Salerno in September 1943, and remained in action against the Germans for nearly two years as they fought their way northwards, edges a little tanned, dustwrapper: spine sunned, a little rubbed at extrems., relined at head of spine, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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