Malta Strikes Back The Story of 231 Infantry Brigade by Gilchrist, Major R T - 1945

Gale & Polden limited, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. No Edition Remarks. 136 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.

Gale & Polden Ltd, Aldershot, 1945. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Only FAIR. First Edition.  8vo. pp. [viii], 136; photo. illusts., 7 sketch maps.Written by the Brigade Intelligence Officer, this account covers the Defence of Malta, training in North Africa, then assault landings and subsequent fighting in Sicily and Italy. This is a good Brigade History for the Mediterranean theatre of war.Foreword by Major-General R E Urquhart, C.B., D.S.O.Note Condition: Only ""Fair"" (Tears to dustjacket, staining to cloth covers, prev ownership name, etc.) Not at collectable standard, but a complete and firm copy of quite a scarce World War II title. Second World War.A new 231st Infantry Brigade was created in the Second World War on 1 April 1943 by the re-designation of the 1st (Malta) Infantry Brigade. This was composed of three Regular Army battalions that had been stationed on, or been transported to, Malta since the start of the Second World War and had served there during the siege. After Rommel’s… Read More