Author: SLIM Field-Marshal William
Title: Defeat into Victory. NEAR FINE COPY IN WORN DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Cassell,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), free endpapers faintly browned; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (affecting lettering) at head of bsckstrip . Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the greatest military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, far east, burma, 14th army, fourteenth army, slim, chindits, command memoirs


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