Author: Birkby, Carel. (Ed).
Title: The Saga of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment 1932-1950.
Description: Howard Timmins, Cape Town, for Hodder & Stoughton 1950. Gilt on tan buckram boards. 749pp illustrated colour & b/w plates, maps. small 4to. 240mm x 190mm x 65mm. 2.0kg. No inscription, 4 square corners. Rear board shows some storage marking, front and spine exceptionally clean. Conservatively VG condition, folding maps and photographs excellent save for one map displaying tanning and frailty at a fold. No dustwrapper. Includes original publisher's bookmark. An excellent tight, clean, and sound copy with excellent shelf and table appearance. "This work is a continuation of the 'History Of The Transvaal Scottish 1902-1932' written by H.C. Juta". It records service in Somaliland, Abyssinia, and North Africa. Usual extensive appendices for a regimental history.

Keywords: military south southern africa world war two tobruk el alamein somaliland abyssinia