Author: Fraser, General Sir David,
Title: WARS AND SHADOWS - Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser.
Description: Allen Lane, London, 2002, 1st edn., viii, 328pp, half tone frontis portrait, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, the memoirs include his accounts of an aristoctaic Scottish upbringing in a military family, the changing times of Britain in the 1930's and his time at Eton, his enlistment in the Gordon Highlanders in 1939, joining the Royal Berkshires in 1940 and posting to the Grenadier Guards for officer training, service in the Normandy breakout and Operation Market Garden, after WW2 involvement with the Suezm Cyprus and Malaya conflicts, becoming Vice Chief of the General Staff, edges tanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 biography autobiography eton scotland grenadier guards operation market garden normandy breakout suez cyprus malaya general staff


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