Author: Essame, H.,
Title: PATTON - THE COMMANDER.
Description: B. T. Batsford, London, ND (copyright 1974), viii, 280pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., cartoon and 8 maps in text, lime green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of George S. Patton Jr., including his early life but mainly of his military career in WW2 in which he outshone his Allied contemporaries in imagination, technique and achievement in mobile operations and, the author argues, could have shortened the war on four occasions if his ability to seize and exploit opportunities had been supported, very faint bump upper tip upper board, single fox mark fore-edge, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped and remains of label front flap, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunned at spine and fore-edges, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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