Author: ROMMEL Field-Marshal [Erwin]
Title: The Rommel Papers. Edited by B. H. Liddell Hart. With the Assistance of Lucie-Maria Rommel, Manfred Rommel and General Fritz Bayerlein. Translated by Paul Findlay. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Collins,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 28 plates on 14, 22 maps (several full-page) in the text, 2 large folding maps and coloured front and rear endpaper reproductions of sketch-maps by Rommel; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter minutely chafed at extremities and faintly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. 'No commander in history has written an account of his campaigns to match the vividness and value of Rommel's'. Hart was in no doubt about the responsibility of his task, the more so since much of this unique material had to be painstakingly reassembled from its various hiding-places safe from Hitler's eyes. Half a century later, the brilliance of Hart's achievement is undimmed. AN OUTSTANDING RECORD FROM ONE OF THE FINEST COMMANDERS OF THE WAR. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.374.

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