Description:
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1943. First US Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ is worn, chipped and creased with tape repaired tears, previous owner's name on FFEP, light wear to orange cloth covered boards, top fore corner lightly bumped ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; 217 pages; Austin, a 'correspondent of the London Daily Herald, trained with the men.. sat in with unit commanders as they talked over details of the operation, and landed with a commando unit that demolished a key gun position of the enemy. From his own knowledge and from reports of friends he has told the story of the entire operation.' Laid in is a map of the key Dieppe battle locations. .
Birth of an Army: The Story of the Tunisian Campaign by Austin, Alexander Berry - 1943
by Austin, Alexander Berry
Birth of an Army: The Story of the Tunisian Campaign
by Austin, Alexander Berry
- Used
- Hardcover
United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz Ltd.. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1943. Second Printing. Hardcover. 2ND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A Good plus hardcover in Fair wrapper. Book has bumping to spine ends and light bumping to corners, single light ding to top edge, light edgewear and some light foxing to text-block edge and prelims. Pages are otherwise clean and bright throughout and frontal map is crisp and intact. A nice copy of a scarce printing. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Photographs; 50x75; 160 pages .
- Bookseller The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition Second Printing
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- Place of Publication United Kingdom
- Date Published 1943
- Keywords North Africa, Tunisian Campaign, World War 2