Macksey, Kenneth,
BATTLE - Normandy 1944 : Life and death in the heat of combat ( originally published in 1974 as 'Anatomy of a Battle' ).
Grub Street, London, 2001 new edn., xii, 206pp, decorated title, map and line drawings in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, a fictional account of the Battle for Caen in July 1944 using authentic incidents but played out by fictitious participants, in order to show the true nature of combat and to protect the memory of the living and the dead, in which six stalemated British Divisions redeploy to join an American attack involving infantry, tanks and artillery working together, written by a respected military commentator on armoured warfare, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faintly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
A Book for all Reasons
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Keywords: war ww2 army france caen