Author: LINDSAY Martin
Title: So Few Got Through. The Personal Diary of Lt. Col. Martin Lindsay who served with the Gordon Highlanders in the 51st Highland Division from July 1944 to May 1945. VISCOUNT TRENCHARD'S COPY
Description: Collins,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 maps (one double-page) and illustrations in the text; red cloth gilt, 51st Division badge blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip, and with minor loss at bottom corner. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF VISCOUNT TRENCHARD AND BEARS HIS HOLOGRAPH SURNAME ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Includes Holland, the Ardennes, the Siegfried Line and Rhine Crossing. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard (1873 -1956), 'Father of the Royal Air Force' , played a pivotal role in the creation of the RAF after WWI and so ensuredg a degree of readiness for the coming of WWII. SCARCE. Enser, p.81.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, highland division, gordon highlanders, ardennes, siegfried line, rhine crossing, unit history, unit histories, martin lindsay


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