Author: Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Title: Normandy to the Baltic
Description: London, Hutchinson and Co, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this personal account of command for the North-West Europe invasion, with many folding coloured maps. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Undated, dated from institutional copies held. With a coloured map frontispiece as well as forty-six further coloured maps, many of which are folding, and three folding plans, all kept in pockets to the pastedowns. This volume tells of his experience in the invasion of North-West Europe, including his relinquishing of the command of the Eighth Army, the Battle of the Rhine and the surrender. Written by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence, and the Second World War. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and slight fading to the spine. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine and chipped to the head and tail. With a small closed tear to the front cover. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with light spotting to the endpapers and pockets. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Good Only.

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