Author: Bulteel, Christopher M.C.,
Title: SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER - Th Wartime Memoirs of Christopher Bulteel M.C..
Description: Airlife, Shrewsbury, 2000. 1st edn., x, 228pp, half tone photo ills.and maps in text, maps at endpapers, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine pictorial montage dustwrapper, the autobiography of a gentle man, who regarded himself as being wholly unsuitable to play the role of the military fighting man, the author was granted a commission in 1941 and posted to the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, joining them shortly after the historic battle of El Amamein. He served with them in North Africa, Sicily and Italy winning the Military Cross there (Gazetted in January, 1944) before falling ill with malaria and hospitalised in Algeria, faintly bumped at lower tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, slight darking to uper edge, very good plus in a near fine dustwrapper,

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