Author: Fraser, David,
Title: AND WE SHALL SHOCK THEM - The British Army in the Second World War.
Description: Book Club Associates, London, 1983, club edn., xiii, 429pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 30 maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of how complacency and myopia by successive governments and lack of professionalism by the army after 1918 led to an antiquated and ill-equipped fighting force by 1939, which suffered defeat at every turn. The author, a young officer during WW2 and a General by the time he retired, covers every major campaign fought by the British Army in WW2 and shows how with new equipment and new leaders the tide was gradually turned, lightly bumped at extrems., faint foxing to upper and fore-edges, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems. with short repaired tear lower cnr. with adjacent creasing, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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