The Desert Rats
VERNEY, Major-General G.L.
With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding.
IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Hutchinson, [1954]
Stock code: 46452
Price: £480.00
8vo., with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps in red; full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made clip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Reasonably detailed history of the service (Middle East, Western Desert, Europe) of one of the most renowned allied armoured formations of WWII. Includes OOB, commanders and senior staff, and a fascinating account of the creation of the famous divisional emblem. Enser, p.35 ; Smith, p.273.