The Bear at the Back Door - Hardcover

The Bear At the Back Door - The Soviet Threat to the West's Lifeline in Africa

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. South African Edition. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page to a military colleague whose bookplate is mounted inside front board. Laid in is a handwritten card from the author to this colleague in which he expresses concerns about England which would probably be even stronger were he alive today. General Sir Walter Walker, KCB, CBE, DSO (1912-2001) concluded his forty year career in the British Army as NATO Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe 1969-72. "In this explosive book he lays bare the lamentable Western response to the continuing miltary build-up of Communist Russia, at sea and on land. He devotes particular attention to the encroachment of Communist Imperialism on the continent of Africa - in Angola, Mozambique, the Horn of Africa: and against Rhodesia and South West Africa." - dust jacket. Churchilian quote relevant to this book's title penned by former owner atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Above-average wear to book and dust jacket which is now in glossy new archival-grade protection. ; 8vo; Signed by Author. Artikel-Nr. 161j1771

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