Author: Doherty, Richard,
Title: A NOBLE CRUSADE - The History of Eighth Army 1941 to 1945.
Description: Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1999, 1st edn., xvi, 368pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive history of the 8th Army, formed in September 1941 in Egypt and taking its cruciform badge from the Operation Crusader battles, it defeated the Axis army in 1942 at El Alamein chasing Rommel's forces across North Africa to Tunisia in 1943, took part in a short campaign in Sicily and then the long campaign up Italy on the Eastern flank with notable successes at the fourth battle for Monte Cassino and eventually forcing the Gothic Line and Rimini Line, crossing the River Po and reaching Austria, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, a little sun darkened along top edge, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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