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Montgomery, Field-Marshal the Viscount, of Alamein, - THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, KG.

Title: THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, KG.
Description: Companion Book Club, London, 1960, club edn., 512pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 14 maps/plans in text, black cloth with red title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, coloured decorated dustwrapper, the autobiography of a leading soldier which covers much personal detail including his boyhood and early days in the army which he joined in 1908, his service during WW1 on the western front ending the war as GSO1, staff college at Camberley and service in Palestine and India before return to England in 1937 to command the 9th Infantry Brigade, the death of his wife and in 1939 WW2 and command of 3rd Division, service in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Arnhem and the Ardennes with progressive advancements, the text includes much of his correspondence with General Eisenhower and also covers his final years in post-war Europe as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, lightly rubbed at tips, edges stanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, spine a little sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: ww1 western front ww2 army palestine quetta poona portsmouth dieppe middle east north africa alamein rommel sicily italy paras normandy arnhem ardennes autobiography

Price: GBP 8.50 = appr. US$ 12.14 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40910

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