Author: Horrocks, Sir Brian with Belfield, Eversley and Essame, Major-General H. Essame,
Title: CORPS COMMANDER.
Description: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1977, 1st edn., xvi, 256pp, half tone photo frontis portrait, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, sign of XXX Corps in gilt upper board, pictorial montage dustwrapper, after spending 14 months recovering from being wounded in North Africa the author took command of XXX Corps in August 1944. As well as an account of the Corps through the Falaise Pocket, crossing the Seine, Arnhem (much expanded from his autobiography A Full Life), Antwerp, Geilenkirchen, Ardennes, Rhine crossing and the liberation of the Netherlands, he relates the day-to-day trials and tribulations of command, light tanning to edges and faint foxing to upper edge, dustwrapper: loightly creased at extrems.sunned at spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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