The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. SIGNED BY LORD ALANBROOKE

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2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly chafed at backstrips. ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF SETS SIGNED BY ALANBROOKE INSTEAD OF BRYANT, WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNATURE ON PUBLISHER'S BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A BOOKSELLER'S LETTER EXPLAINING THE CONTEXT OF THE SIGNATURE. The set comprises: The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957); Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. COPIES SIGNED BY ALANBROOKE HIMSELF ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, pp.199, 474 respectively.

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Titel

The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. SIGNED BY LORD ALANBROOKE

Verlag

Collins, 1957-59

Erscheinungsjahr

1957

Einband

Softcover

Auflage

1. Auflage

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Schutzumschlag

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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