Author: Forty, George,
Title: DESERT RATS AT WAR - 2. Europe.
Description: Ian Allan, London, 1977, 1st edn., 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills., maps, facsimiles and cartoons in text, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, continuing the history of the Division started in volume 1 'North Africa', they rested and refitted at Homs before a brief but hard fought campaign in Italy landing at Salerno and re-embarking at Naples to return to England where they took over a new, the Cromwell, and were the first armour into Normandy at Arromanches learning by experience a new skills of close country fighting in the bocage, from then on being in the fore-front of the advance across Europe through Belgium and Holland to Germany and Hamburg, also taking part in the Victory parade in Berlin, with personal anecdotes and many previously unpublished photographs, edges tanned, dustwrapper: tanned at extrems., near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 army desert rats europe montgomery


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