Hamilton, Nigel, - MONTY - The Making of a General 1887-1942.

Coronet, London, 1984, 1st in imrpint, trade paperback, xviii, 828pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the first of what was to become a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, winner of the Whitbread Award in 1981 for the best biography of the year; the definitive life of the British soldier, covering on the way his Irish antecedants, his childhood and time at Sandhurst, experiences in WW1 on the Western Front, the inter-war years, with the BEF in France and Dunkirk, arrival in the Western Desert and the preparations for battle, the defensive Battle at Alam Halfa, when Rommel tried to encircle him, and the battle at El Alamein when he forced Rommel into retreat, vertically creased spine, rubbed at extrems., some creasing to wrappers, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, good,

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