Author: SPEARS, MAJOR-GENERAL SIR EDWARD
Title: Fulfilment of a Mission : Syria and Lebanon 1941-1944
Description: London, Leo Cooper. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 085052234X) Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked light blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn wth tiny crease to foot of slightly sunned spine. 311pp. Considered with Churchill as one of the twp outstanding soldier authors of the 20th century, Spears found himself at war not only with the Germans and the Vichy French but equally with the Free French and the Foreign Office ! In this work he describes his gradual disenchantment with the monster he had created - De Gaulle - who he had brought from France to England and virtually created him leader of the Free French. Fine/Very Good (+).

Keywords: Second World War, Controversy, Politics and Current Affairs Biography - Politics 085052234x


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