Defeat into Victory
SLIM, Field-Marshal William
NEAR FINE COPY IN WORN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Cassell, [1956]
Stock code: 49340
Price: £300.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), free endpapers faintly browned; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (affecting lettering) at head of bsckstrip .
Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the greatest military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.