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FARNDALE, GENERAL SIR MARTIN - The Years of Defeat, Europe and North Africa 1939-1941

London: Brassey's, 1996. First English Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 1857530802. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Fine decorated blue cloth, The dustjacket is a trifle damp stained on the reverse which has not affected the book. No inscriptions. Numerous colour maps. "This book, the fifth in the New Series, is concerned with the Regiment’s part in the first two years of the Second World War, at home, in Europe and in Africa. It covers the relatively small Regular element existing in peacetime and the massive growth brought about by the urgent need to to expand for war. Armed at the outset mostly with guns which differed little from those employed in the First World War, the Regiment was ill-equipped in the quality and quantity of its equipments and in the standard of training of most of its men. These deficiencies were eventually overcome. "; Black& white photographs; Tall 8vo 9" - 10" ; (xxv) 383 pages. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.75 US$ 114.65 | JP¥ 18040] Booknumber: 17311

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