B. L. BERSTEIN - The Tide Turned at Alamein. Impressions of the Desert War With the South African Division and the Eighth Army June 1941-January 1943

South Africa, Central News Agency, 1944. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardback. First Edition. The Tide Turned at Alamein. Foxing to end inside covers, edge and some pages. Slight shelf wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of cloth. Tiny dent to back cloth. Brown cloth with black lettering. Author's Note - This book is no historial record. It contains my impressions of a momentous period in the desert war which culminated in the Battle of Alamein. El Alamein was curiously linked with Springboks. It was there that we grudginly dug defences in the summer and authumn of 1941. It was there that we fought bitterly to hold Rommel's Panzers in the summer of 1942. it was there that, together with men from Britain and every part of the Empire, we fought and fell in the greatest battle of all on the 23rd October, 1942. We were proud members of the Eighth Army during all its ups and downs. If I have any acknowledgments to make it is to those desert rats of the Eighth Army and those desert eagles of the Air Force whose trials and triumphs provide the background for these impressions. Illustrated. 144 pp.