A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1945-1982
PHELPS, Major-General L.T.H.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Royal Army Ordnance Corps, [1982]
Stock code: 48557
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous photographs, maps (several full-page) and diagrams in the text; regimental purple cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Fifth volume of the continuously published history of the Corps, covering the period from August 1945 to the end of the Falklands conflict. Detailed and clearly written, it includes the transition from war to peace, the Cold War, thirteen years of National Service, Suez, withdrawal from Empire, bomb disposal in Northern Ireland, three wars and numerous 'local difficulties' across the world.