Author: Ryder, Rowland,
Title: RAVENSTEIN - Portrait of a German General.
Description: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978, 1st edn., x, 214pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, winner of 'pour le mérite' as a subaltern in WW1, he was in command of an armoured unit in the invasion of Poland in 1939, in 1940 as Colonel commanding a regiment of 6th Panzer Division he won the 'ritterkreuz' for the capture of the HQ staff of the French 9th Division at Le Catelet, and serving in North Africa as Lieut. General when captured by New Zealanders at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941, very sl. cocked, faint marks to front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 germany army poland france north africa sidi rezegh


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