The Crucible of War. Western Desert 1941 [with] Year of Alamein 1942. [Complete set.]
PITT, Barrie
NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1980-82]
Stock code: 47139
Price: £60.00
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Editions, with very numerous plates and maps, and tinted front and rear endpapers maps in each volume; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
Superb history of the war in the Western Desert by an acknowledged master. Reissued variously in book club editions and most recently in paperback format with (confusingly) altered titles, but never to these production standards. Enser, pp.74,165.