Author: Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler),
Title: DEATH ON A DISTANT FRONTIER : A Lost Victory, 1944.
Description: Leo Cooper, London, 1996, 1st edn., xiv, 162pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text map, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Allied advance in France in September 1944, with the 1st SAS Brigade behind enemy lines in the Vosges mountains raising the local resistance to prepare to sabotage the German lines for the advance of the US 3rd and 7th Armies but American political considerations took priority, the advance was delayed and the opportunity lost, upper edge faintly foxed, some sl. offsetting to illustrations, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 army vosges mountains patton eisenhower sas


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