Author: Lyman, Robert,
Title: FIRST VICTORY - Britain's Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941.
Description: Constable, London, 2006, 1st edn., xiv, 336pp, 5 maps, light brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a narrative of a series of vital victories in the Middle East in the early years of WW2 which have been relegated to footnotes in history, which preceded the battle of El Alamein once described by Churchill as 'the first victory', the author reveals the fraught negotiations, rapid manoeuvering of meagre troops and the additional improvisation and good luck that enabled British forces to secure Britain's future and control the oil supply, recommended as 'required reading for those involved in the management and conduct of operations in the Middle East today' (Director of the Defence Academy), light bump at head of spine, dustwrapper: light creasing to edges, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 middle east iran syria iraq army


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