GUDERIAN General Heinz

Panzer Leader. Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO

Michael Joseph,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, and 22 illustrations (a number full-page) and 37 maps (the majority full-page) in the text; 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, an elegant copy in custom-made board slip-case. One of the most important memoirs to emerge from the German side of WWII. Translated from the German 'Erinnerungen eines Soldaten', it gives for the first time 'the authoritative inside story of the origin and development of the military machine which made possible Hitler's blitzkreig'. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45765

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GUDERIAN General Heinz

Panzer Leader. Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon. [First English Edition. Second Impression] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION

Michael Joseph,, [1952]. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with portrait frontispiece, and 22 illustrations (a number full-page) and 37 maps (the majority full-page) in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, mild tape-marks on free endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, dark top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published three months after the first edition. One of the most important memoirs to emerge from the German side of WWII. Translated from the German 'Erinnerungen eines Soldaten', it gives for the first time 'the authoritative inside story of the origin and development of the military machine which made possible Hitler's blitzkreig'. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46518

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, command memoirs, guderian, heinz guderian, panzers, panzer, tanks, armoured warfare